From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752154AbWCEHW6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Mar 2006 02:22:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752151AbWCEHW6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Mar 2006 02:22:58 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:25526 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752147AbWCEHW5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Mar 2006 02:22:57 -0500 Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 23:21:24 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Chris Leech Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] [I/OAT] Add a sysctl for tuning the I/OAT offloaded I/O threshold Message-Id: <20060304232124.621ba696.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060303214234.11908.99495.stgit@gitlost.site> References: <20060303214036.11908.10499.stgit@gitlost.site> <20060303214234.11908.99495.stgit@gitlost.site> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Leech wrote: > > Any socket recv of less than this ammount will not be offloaded > > ... > > +int sysctl_tcp_dma_copybreak = NET_DMA_DEFAULT_COPYBREAK; Is it appropriate that this tunable be kernel-wide, rather than more finely-grained?