Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

From: jamal <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:32:45 -0400

On Tue, 2007-26-06 at 13:57 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: jamal <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:27:28 -0400
> 
> > Back to the question: Do you recall how this number was arrived at? 
> > 128 packets will be sent out at GiGe in about 80 microsecs, so from a
> > feel-the-wind-direction perspective it seems reasonable.
> 
> I picked it out of a hat.

It is not a bad value for Gige; doubt it will be a good one for 10/100
or even 10GE.
But you could say that about the ring sizes too.

cheers,
jamal