Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] netem: trace enhancement

From: Ariane Keller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:54:29 +0100

I thought about that as well, but in my opinion this does not help much.
It's the same as before: in average every 10ms a new buffer needs to be 
filled.

Ben Greear wrote:
> Ariane Keller wrote:
>>
>> Increasing the cache size to say 32k for each buffer would be no problem.
>> Is this enough?
> Maybe just a variable length list of 4k buffers chained together?  Its 
> usually easier
> to get 4k chunks of memory than 32k chunks, especially under high 
> network load,
> and if you go ahead an make it arbitrary length, then each user can 
> determine how many
> they want to have queued...
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
>