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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase number of default rx-/tx-buffers
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 13:38:17 +0100
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On Saturday 05 January 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 10:50 +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > Performance tests done by AMCC have shown that 256 buffer increase the
> > performance of the Linux EMAC driver. So let's update the default
> > values to match this setup.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
> > ---
>
> Do we have the numbers ? Did they also measure latency ?

I hoped this question would not come. ;) No, unfortunately I don't have any 
numbers. Just the recommendation from AMCC to always use 256 buffers.

Best regards,
Stefan