From: Tianji Li <Tianji.Li@nuim.ie>
To: rick.jones2@hp.com
Cc: bloat-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
sedat.dilek@gmail.com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: debloat-testing kernel git tree
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:45:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6FEFD4.9010608@nuim.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299176168.2157.14.camel@tardy>
On 03/03/2011 12:16 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
>> For wireless routers and cable home gateways especially, this research
>> shows that the total un-managed buffers in your system should be less
>> than 32.
>
> Would it be a good thing to start describing these queues not so much in
> terms of packets but in terms of delay (or bandwidth X delay)?
>
The unit of bandwidth is something like Mbps, that of delay can be
second, so bandwidth X delay --> Mb, which is the unit of packet size.
So both packets and delay should have the same effect for sizing buffers.
Tianji
> Constants tend to live longer than they should, no matter how noble in
> birth.
>
> rick jones
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-03 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-25 22:22 John W. Linville
2011-02-27 15:23 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-02-27 15:31 ` Dave Täht
2011-02-27 15:38 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-02-27 15:56 ` Dave Täht
2011-02-27 16:01 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-02-27 16:25 ` Dave Täht
2011-03-03 18:16 ` Rick Jones
2011-03-03 18:19 ` John W. Linville
2011-03-03 19:45 ` Tianji Li [this message]
2011-03-03 22:33 ` Rick Jones
2011-03-08 6:58 ` Pavel Machek
2011-03-08 18:48 ` Rick Jones
2011-03-13 10:27 ` Pavel Machek
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