From: "Tom Herbert" <therbert@google.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:34:50 -0700

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> Queuing in the host as opposed to in the TX NIC might be beneficial to make
> work conserving queuing disciplines more effective, since once a packet is
> queued in the NIC the host can no longer perform any more scheduling on
> it.    In fact, we have been working on a mechanism to dynamically limit
> queuing in the NIC (by number of bytes), so that more packets will be queued
> in host.  This seems to give better results with some of the qdiscs (I can
> post a patch if there's interest in this).

This work is interesting, but doesn't it make more sense to limit by
number of packets instead of bytes?

No intermediate node that I know of drops bytes, they drop packets
instead :-)
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