From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
To: therbert@google.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: make CONFIG_BQL actually end user configurable
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:38:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331005096-12332-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> (raw)
Without the defining string or help text, LKC won't ever bother
to ask the end user for a setting for CONFIG_BQL -- you could
delete it from your .config and run make oldconfig and not a
thing would change -- it would still be silently re-enabled.
While most people will have no reason to turn this off, the
ability to do so can be useful for testing BQL support additions
on previously BQL-unaware drivers and similar.
The kconfig help text is largely taken from the original RFC
patchset 0/N header sent to netdev@vger.kernel.org in fall 2011.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
[Apologies if this was explicitly blocked for a reason; I couldn't
find a reason after searching netdev or threads at bufferbloat.net ]
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index e07272d..fd1d815 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -241,10 +241,15 @@ config NETPRIO_CGROUP
a per-interface basis
config BQL
- boolean
+ boolean "Byte Queue Limits"
depends on SYSFS
select DQL
default y
+ ---help---
+ Byte queue limits are a mechanism to limit the size of the transmit
+ hardware queue on a NIC by a number of bytes. The goal of these byte
+ queue limits is to reduce latency caused by excessive queuing in
+ hardware without sacrificing throughput.
config HAVE_BPF_JIT
bool
--
1.7.9.1
next reply other threads:[~2012-03-06 3:38 UTC|newest]
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2012-03-06 3:38 Paul Gortmaker [this message]
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2012-03-06 4:09 ` [PATCH] net: make CONFIG_BQL actually end user configurable Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-06 5:57 ` Tom Herbert
2012-03-06 4:11 ` David Miller
2012-03-06 4:11 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-06 4:17 ` Paul Gortmaker
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