From: Jamal Hadi <hadi@shell.cyberus.ca> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:12:58 -0400 (EDT) Theres another dimension actually: mostly driven by BSD mbuff style packet allocation; some tests show that some vendors are optimized for certain packet sizes, Linux skbuffs dont have this problem. Well, the most amusing part for me is that if you read all the papers on TCP congestion algorithms you'd think that routers dropped based upon packet sizes since the majority work on multiple of MSS this and multiple of MSS that. :) Routers drop packets, period. They do so using a variety of selection schemes (RED, CBQ, actually just egrep net/sched/sch_*.c :) but you're contribution to the router's work is measured in terms of packets and time when you come right down to it. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
