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

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:07:31 -0800

Ariane Keller wrote:
> 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.
But, you can fill 50 or 100 at a time, so if user-space is delayed for a 
few ms, the
kernel still has plenty of buffers to work with until user-space gets 
another chance.
I'm not worried about average thoughput of user-space to kernel, just random
short-term starvation.

Thanks,
Ben

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