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From: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@shri-linux.eng.vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] net/vmxnet3: add receive data ring
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 14:57:03 -0800
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, Thomas Monjalon wrote:

> 2017-03-06 09:17, Shrikrishna Khare:
> > Receive Data Ring buffer length is configurable via ethtool -G ethX rx-mini
> 
> Are you configuring the ring length before unbinding from the kernel driver?

Changing rx data ring requires changing the code and recompiling.

The above ethtool -G line was from my patch that added similar feature to 
Linux vmxnet3 driver. Have removed the line and reposted v3 of the patch 
series.

Thanks,
Shri