[c-nsp] mitigate output drops on Cisco 2960G platform

Joerg Mayer jmayer at loplof.de
Fri Sep 20 17:29:05 EDT 2013


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 07:23:17PM +0100, Phil Mayers wrote:
> (However: I wonder if the various techniques being discussed
> elsewhere - like the new Linux kernel packet pacing, disabling TCP
> segmentation offload and reducing nic ring, kernel and app buffers -
> might alleviate the generation of microbursts?)

As long as your problems are TCP related yes, things should be getting
less bad. If you have UDP traffic (think videostreaming, I-frames), you
don't get that help.

Ciao
   J\303\266rg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer at loplof.de>
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