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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:27:26 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_5 material? ip_output.c#rev.1.227
Message-ID:  <200408232227.27474.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <412A4742.5020502@elischer.org>
References:  <200408232117.23578.max@love2party.net> <412A4742.5020502@elischer.org>

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On Monday 23 August 2004 21:36, Julian Elischer wrote:
> what's the result of this..?

Uhg ... I knew I was missing something.

This will re-enable the so called "early drop hack" that checks early in th=
e=20
output path whether or not there is room left in the interface queue. This=
=20
reduces the workload and the network lock contention as it avoids unnecessa=
ry=20
progressing of packets that can't be queued (and later sent out) anyway.

=46or ALTQ enabled queues the check is disabled. Before this change it was=
=20
disabled for *all* queues once you put in "options ALTQ".

> Max Laier wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'd like to merge the following diff to RELENG_5 in order to gain
> > performance for the most common ALTQ setups (huge, unALTQed LAN-if and
> > small(er), ALTQed WAN-uplink). It is really straight forward, please lo=
ok
> > at the diff and tell me what you think:
> >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/ip_output.c.diff?r=
1=3D
> >1.226&r2=3D1.227&f=3Dh
> >
> >Thanks in advance!

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