Re: [Prism54-devel] Re: TxDescriptors -> 1024 default. Please not for every NIC!

[Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:38:11AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
>       I personally would stick with 100. The IrDA stack runs
> perfectly fine with 15 buffers at 4 Mb/s. If 100 is not enough, I
> think the problem is not the number of buffers, but somewhere else.

 I don't know how much trollish or true is that comment:
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=106258&cid=9049422
but it suggest, that Linux' stack having no BSD like mbuf functionality,
is not perfect for fast transmission. Maybe some network guru
cna comment ?

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