Re: [RFC] netif_rx: receive path optimization

[Nivedita Singhvi <niv@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick Jones wrote:

> Well, I'm in an email discussion with someone who seems to bump their 
> TCP windows quite large, and disable timestamps...

Ah, an oldie but a goodie :), disabling route inheritance
as a result, bumping up their default rto back to 300ms, just
so many things that could go wrong there...

> BTW what is the real world purpose of having the multiple CPU affinity 
> of NIC interrupts?  I have to admit it seems rather alien to me.  (In 
> the context of no onboard NIC smarts being involved that is)

Featuritis Bloatis ;). It's a marketing requirement :).


thanks,
Nivedita