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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] skge: increase TX threshold for Jumbo
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:54:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071126195557.762317974@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20071126195447.846382144@linux-foundation.org

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Need to increase TX threshold when doing Jumbo frames on dual port board
to avoid underruns. (Code from sk98lin).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>


--- a/drivers/net/skge.c	2007-11-21 14:05:59.000000000 -0800
+++ b/drivers/net/skge.c	2007-11-21 14:06:15.000000000 -0800
@@ -1633,15 +1633,14 @@ static void genesis_mac_init(struct skge
 	}
 	xm_write16(hw, port, XM_RX_CMD, r);
 
-
 	/* We want short frames padded to 60 bytes. */
 	xm_write16(hw, port, XM_TX_CMD, XM_TX_AUTO_PAD);
 
-	/*
-	 * Bump up the transmit threshold. This helps hold off transmit
-	 * underruns when we're blasting traffic from both ports at once.
-	 */
-	xm_write16(hw, port, XM_TX_THR, 512);
+	/* Increase threshold for jumbo frames on dual port */
+	if (hw->ports > 1 && jumbo)
+		xm_write16(hw, port, XM_TX_THR, 1020);
+	else
+		xm_write16(hw, port, XM_TX_THR, 512);
 
 	/*
 	 * Enable the reception of all error frames. This is is

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-26 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-26 19:54 [PATCH 0/6] skge update (for 2.6.24) Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-26 19:54 ` [PATCH 1/6] skge: FIFO Ram calculation error Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-01 21:33   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-26 19:54 ` [PATCH 2/6] skge: receive flush logic Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-26 19:54 ` [PATCH 3/6] skge: retry on MAC shutdown Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-26 19:54 ` [PATCH 4/6] skge: fiber link up/down fix Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-26 19:54 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-11-26 19:54 ` [PATCH 6/6] skge version 1.13 Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-28 22:23   ` [PATCH 1/2] skge: serial mode register values Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-28 22:25     ` [PATCH 2/2] skge: MTU changing fix Stephen Hemminger

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