Ariane Keller wrote:
Yes, for short-term starvation it helps certainly.
But I'm still not convinced that it is really necessary to add more
buffers, because I'm not sure whether the bottleneck is really the
loading of data from user space to kernel space.
Some basic tests have shown that the kernel starts loosing packets at
approximately the same packet rate regardless whether we use netem, or
netem with the trace extension.
But if you have contrary experience I'm happy to add a parameter which
defines the number of buffers.
I have no numbers, so if you think it works, then that is fine with me.
If you actually run out of the trace buffers, do you just continue to
run with the last settings? If so, that would keep up throughput
even if you are out of trace buffers...
What rates do you see, btw? (pps, bps).
Thanks,
Ben
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