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Date:      Fri, 3 Mar 1995 21:44:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_loop.c
Message-ID:  <199503040544.VAA13918@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503040514.VAA00190@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 3, 95 09:14:09 pm

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> >> davidg      95/03/03 20:28:51
> >> 
> >>   Modified:    sys/net  if_loop.c
> >>   Log:
> >>   Reduced loopback MTU to 16k to work around a miriad of problems with it
> >>   set near or above 32k (likely caused by 16bit signed word overflow). 16k
> >>   actually (surprizingly) has higher performance than other values I tested.
> >
> >Probably because it matches our default TCP-window, thus making it possible
> >to return to user-space and effectively run in parallel.
> 
>    An interesting thought...but I think it's much more complicated than that.
A very good candidate for "understatement of the year".  The major part of
the last year I have tried to get ATM to perform, and I have learned that
unless you actually see it on the line, you shouldn't assume anything about
what's in a packet.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk>
TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
I am Pentium Of Borg. Division is Futile. You WILL be approximated.



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