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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Matheos.Worku@Sun.COM
Cc: netdev@axxeo.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ariel.Hendel@Sun.COM,
	Greg.Onufer@Sun.COM, jeff@garzik.org, Ashley.Saulsbury@Sun.COM
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Third (final?) release of Sun Neptune driver
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:43:30 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071005.154330.95907448.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4706B83D.40306@sun.com>

From: Matheos Worku <Matheos.Worku@Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:18:37 -0700

> > 
> >> +static void niu_set_max_burst(struct niu *np, struct tx_ring_info *rp)
> >> +{
> >> +	int mtu = np->dev->mtu;
> >> +
> >> +	rp->max_burst = mtu + 32;
> >> +	if (rp->max_burst > 4096)
> >> +		rp->max_burst = 4096;
> > 
> > Why 32 and 4096? (Magic values)
> 
> These values were recommended by the HW designers for fair utilization 
> of DRR feature among TX/RX rings.

I'll add macro defines for these, thanks for the feedback.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-05 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-05 10:12 [PATCH]: Third (final?) release of Sun Neptune driver David Miller
2007-10-05 15:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-05 22:49   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 22:54   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 23:31     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-05 22:56   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 23:07   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 23:24   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 23:32     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-05 23:27   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 15:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-05 21:12   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 21:18     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-05 23:30       ` David Miller
2007-10-05 15:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-05 21:12   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 21:14     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-05 21:21       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-05 21:40         ` David Miller
2007-10-05 21:38       ` David Miller
2007-10-05 23:42   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 15:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-06  0:04   ` David Miller
2007-10-06  0:28     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-06  0:46       ` David Miller
2007-10-06  8:32       ` Johannes Berg
2007-10-05 16:46 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-10-05 16:49   ` Ingo Oeser
2007-10-06  0:08     ` David Miller
2007-10-08 16:04       ` Oliver Hartkopp
2007-10-05 16:55   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-05 17:45   ` Matheos Worku
2007-10-05 21:18   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 21:20   ` David Miller
     [not found]   ` <470677A0.5060502@sun.com>
2007-10-05 21:24     ` David Miller
2007-10-05 22:18   ` Matheos Worku
2007-10-05 22:43     ` David Miller [this message]
2007-10-06  0:10   ` David Miller
2007-10-08 16:01 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2007-10-08 23:08   ` David Miller

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