Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P8 | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:46:47 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 01:41, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > > > > - reduce netdev_max_backlog to 8 (Mark H Johnson) > > > > On my system this setting has absolutely no effect on the skb related > > latencies. [...] > > it has an effect on input queue length. Output queue lengths can be > reduced via 'ifconfig eth0 txqueuelen 8'. >
OK. With both of these set to 4, the largest latency I was able to generate by ping flooding was 253 usecs.
Is there any particular reason one of these parameters is set via a sysctl/proc entry, and one by ifconfig?
Lee
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