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Date:      Fri, 3 Mar 1995 21:08:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        davidg@freefall.cdrom.com (David Greenman)
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_loop.c
Message-ID:  <199503040508.VAA13824@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503040428.UAA14736@freefall.cdrom.com> from "David Greenman" at Mar 3, 95 08:28:51 pm

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> davidg      95/03/03 20:28:51
> 
>   Modified:    sys/net  if_loop.c
>   Log:
>   Reduced loopback MTU to 16k to work around a miriad of problems with it
>   set near or above 32k (likely caused by 16bit signed word overflow). 16k
>   actually (surprizingly) has higher performance than other values I tested.

Probably because it matches our default TCP-window, thus making it possible
to return to user-space and effectively run in parallel.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk>
TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
I am Pentium Of Borg. Division is Futile. You WILL be approximated.



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