On Mon, 2007-11-06 at 14:39 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > jamal wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-11-06 at 13:58 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >
> > Sure. Packets stashed on the any DMA ring are considered "gone to the > > wire". That is a very valid assumption to make. > > > I disagree, its obviously not true Patrick, you are making too strong a statement. Take a step back: When you put a packet on the DMA ring, are you ever going to take it away at some point before it goes to the wire? > and leads to the behaviour I > described. If it were true there would be no reason to use multiple > HW TX queues to begin with. In the general case, they are totaly useless. They are useful when theres contention/congestion. Even in a shared media like wireless. And if there is contention, the qdisc scheduler will do the right thing. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
