Re: Kernel deadlock using nbd over acenic driver.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 14 May 2002 17:48:29 +0100 (BST)


> Xiangping> So for gigabit Ethernet driver, what is the optimal mem
> Xiangping> configuration for performance and reliability?
>
> It depends on your application, number of streams, general usage of
> the connection etc. There's no perfect-for-all magic number.

The primary constraints are

TCP max window size
TCP congestion window size (cwnd)
Latency

Most of the good discussion on this matter can be found in the ietf
archives from the window scaling options work, and in part in the RFC's
that led to

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