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prefetch and buffer bloatprefetch and buffer bloatPosted May 24, 2011 17:53 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)In reply to: prefetch and buffer bloat by martinfick Parent article: The problem with prefetch
Yes, it is marketing - whether from the marketing department or development engineering. You can't sell someone a faster ethernet card unless you can demonstrate higher throughput with no dropped packets, and the easiest way to do that is to increase the number of buffers.
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