Re: Minor bug in PPP driver

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Fri, 17 May 1996 17:03:19 +0100 (BST)

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> I've found a minor bug in the ppp driver. The value of tx_queue_len was
> set to 0. The problem is that the current networking code
> will just drop a packet on the floor if there is no "room" in the
> device queue when it tries to put it into the queue. Since the queue
> is just a linked list I didn't see any problems with making the value
> of tx_queue_len non-zero. [This is the case in pretty much all the
> other networking drivers.] In any case this improves the full bore
> TCP speed across my PPP link by about 10%.

Oops thats mine not Al Longyears. Will apply tonight

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