Andi Kleen wrote, On 01/31/2008 08:34 PM: >> TSO by nature is bursty. But disabling TSO without the option of having >> it on or off to me seems to aggressive. If someone is using a qdisc >> that TSO is interfering with the effectiveness of the traffic shaping, >> then they should turn off TSO via ethtool on the target device. Some > > The philosophical problem I have with this suggestion is that I expect > that the large majority of users will be more happy with disabled TSO > if they use non standard qdiscs and defaults that do not fit > the majority use case are bad.
If you mean the large majority of the large minority of users, who use non standard qdiscs - I agree - this is really the philosophical problem! > Basically you're suggesting that nearly everyone using tc should learn about > another obscure command. ...So, it sounds like tc is used by nearly everyone now... It seems my distro really isn't up to date: "Package: iproute ... Description: Professional tools to control the networking in Linux kernels This is `iproute', the professional set of tools to control the networking behavior in kernels 2.2.x and later." And ethtool doesn't have to be learnt at all: "most friendly distros" could use this in config or add some graphical wrapper. Regards, Jarek P. -- 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
