TUTORIALS 》 Network MTU and Path MTU Discovery PMTUD - WAN and Internet Performance Optimization

The Linux Channel :: Weekly News Digest - Week 03 - July 2020
> Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing 'magic instructions' and 'start fixing real problems'
> QNAP launches its first 2.5GbE network switch - QSW-1105-5T
> Japan's ARM-based Fugaku is the world's fastest supercomputer
> FreeBSD Back To Seeing Progress On 802.11ac WiFi Support, Ath10k Driver
> Sparkfun Launches the ZED-F9R GPS Dead Reckoning Raspberry Pi pHAT for Mobile Robots
> ODROID-N2 Plus SBC Gets Amlogic S922X Rev. C Processor Clocked at up to 2.4 GHz
> Rock Pi E SBC Comes with WiFi, Bluetooth, Two Ethernet Ports, and Optional PoE

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A circular buffer, circular queue, cyclic buffer or ring buffer is a data structure is a fixed-size buffer as if it were connected end-to-end or can be a dynamic one if implemented via Linked Lists. This is a data-structure quite popularly used in many parts of Linux Kernel such as Device Drivers, especially Network Hardware drivers, Network Packet Buffer such as sk_buff and so on. We can use a Ring Buffer in user-space application programming too. These kind of buffers are more suited for holding steady stream of incoming data. For example Network Packets. If the buffer gets full, we can discard the oldest buffer elements (such as packets). And to avoid we can increase the buffer size. So circular ring buffers plays a major role especially in Network Appliances such as Routers, Firewalls, etc.