Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264906AbTFQTlW (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:41:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264909AbTFQTlW (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:41:22 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:2009 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264906AbTFQTlW (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:41:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20030617.125040.58438649.davem@redhat.com> To: janiceg@us.ibm.com Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, shemminger@osdl.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, girouard@us.ibm.com, stekloff@us.ibm.com, lkessler@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, niv@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: patch for common networking error messages From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <3EEF7030.6030303@us.ibm.com> References: <3EEF66AA.3000509@us.ibm.com> <3EEF6A9D.6050303@pobox.com> <3EEF7030.6030303@us.ibm.com> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 840 Lines: 19 From: Janice M Girouard Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:46:56 -0500 I could see the buffers backing up for 10/100 cards. So that case favors your point. I'm still thinking that it's a sign someone should be buying a 2nd card and ramping up their network capability. But I can see your point. And when we have 1GHZ memory busses and 10GHz cpus tomorrow, what does this say for 1gbit and 10gbit cards? You want to define a machine as having too much "work" or not, yet you only want to consider one metric to do so. Such schemes are fundamentally flawed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/