Subject: Re: patch for common networking error messages

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:23:09 -0400

Janice M Girouard wrote:
> 2) events that drive load balancing software.  Right now if we need to 
> throttle the card, we don't send events up to indicate we have reached 
> capacity. 

Question related to this item specifically :)

Do you want to individually send 4000 - 16000 (or more) TX stop / start 
events per second to userspace?  :)  At some point Heisenburg defeats 
low latency :)

If not (and I hope not), perhaps also look into the net stack statistics 
already kept (or add more sampling stats if necessary), and instead 
trigger events based on sampling those statistics.

	Jeff