Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:37:10 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange results with increased net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen Message-ID: <20011012153710.C6274@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011012153142.B6274@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cristjc@earthlink.net on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 03:31:42PM -0700 References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011011164834.0728c2e0@marble.sentex.ca> <200110120116.f9C1GEv18196@arch20m.dellroad.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20011012121150.072325d0@marble.sentex.ca> <20011012153142.B6274@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 03:31:42PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:13:59PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > At 06:16 PM 10/11/01 -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> >
> > >If the forwarding path is maxed out, then it is the application layer's
> > >responsibility to back off (think TCP).
> >
> > Is it better for the networking layer to deal with this (potentially
> > introducing some latency) as opposed to letting the application ?
>
> I think Mike probably meant the transport layer, not application,
> since he was talking about TCP. The transport layer is the right place
> to do this.
Oops.
s/Mike/Archie/
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