Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] Networking include file changes.

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:59:35 +0200

Krishna Kumar wrote:
> diff -ruNp org/include/linux/netdevice.h new/include/linux/netdevice.h
> --- org/include/linux/netdevice.h	2007-07-20 07:49:28.000000000 +0530
> +++ new/include/linux/netdevice.h	2007-07-20 08:30:55.000000000 +0530
> @@ -264,6 +264,8 @@ enum netdev_state_t
>  	__LINK_STATE_QDISC_RUNNING,
>  };
>  
> +/* Minimum length of device hardware queue for batching to work */
> +#define MIN_QUEUE_LEN_BATCH	16

Is there any downside in using batching with smaller queue sizes?