Subject: Re: [RFC] netif_rx: receive path optimization

From: Nivedita Singhvi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:30:25 -0800

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