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Date:      Sat, 1 May 2010 10:58:23 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@sippysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, "current@freebsd.org" <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Making IFQ_MAXLEN tunable
Message-ID:  <20100501105823.28ac1756@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BDB3C31.4050709@sippysoft.com>
References:  <4BDB3C31.4050709@sippysoft.com>

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On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:23:13 -0700
Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@sippysoft.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Many network drivers in the FreeBSD kernel use the IFQ_MAXLEN value to 
> set length of the outgoing packets queue. The default value for that 
> parameter is only 50, which is pretty low especially for the cases when 
> the system handles lot of small packets and can cause ENOBUFS in 
> applications under the load. The following patch makes IFQ_MAXLEN a 
> tunable. I am also tempted to bump the default value for IFQ_MAXLEN 
> 10-fold, but would like to hear what do people think about it first.
> 
> http://sobomax.sippysoft.com/IFQ_MAXLEN.diff
> 

Seems like a good idea, although I don't see where ifqmaxlen is being
initialized.

--
Gary Jennejohn



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