What is rx_processing_limit sysctl for Intel igb NIC driver?

Andy Young ayoung at mosaicarchive.com
Mon Sep 3 02:41:16 UTC 2012


I am tuning our server that has an Intel 82576 gigabit NIC using the igb
driver. I see a lot of posts on the net where people bump the
rx_processing_limit sysctl from the default value of 100 to 4096. Can
anyone tell me what this is intended to do?

Thanks!

Andy


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