From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alexander.h.duyck@intel.com
Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/4] ixgbe: remove rx_hdr_split debug counter for non-debug configurations
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 17:04:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090528.170454.04735753.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80769D7B14936844A23C0C43D9FBCF0F44CF8060@orsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
From: "Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 17:01:17 -0700
> The counter didn't really have much use other than in our early
> validation work to make certain the silicon was working as
> documented. If it stays it isn't too big a concern I just figured
> it might be nice to remove it since igb is a multiqueue driver and
> having a global counter can cause some cache thrash on multicore
> systems.
If it really is just a silicon validation thing, then given the
multiqueue concerns it's probably best to just remove it
unconditionaly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-29 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-27 0:54 [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/4] ixgbe: fix 82598 SFP initialization after driver load Jeff Kirsher
2009-05-27 0:54 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/4] ixgbe: fix driver loading with unsupported module on 82598 Jeff Kirsher
2009-05-27 1:28 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-05-27 3:41 ` David Miller
2009-05-27 0:54 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/4] ixgbe: remove rx_hdr_split debug counter for non-debug configurations Jeff Kirsher
2009-05-27 3:38 ` David Miller
2009-05-27 11:16 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-05-27 20:52 ` David Miller
2009-05-29 0:01 ` Duyck, Alexander H
2009-05-29 0:04 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-05-27 0:55 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 4/4] ixgbe: Remove device ID 0x10d8 Jeff Kirsher
2009-05-27 3:40 ` David Miller
2009-05-27 3:40 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/4] ixgbe: fix 82598 SFP initialization after driver load David Miller
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