From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/2] e1000e: increase rx fifo size to 36K on 82574 and 82583 Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 00:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100506.002542.52183792.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100505082537.5956.86868.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:57059 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755361Ab0EFHZf (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2010 03:25:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100505082537.5956.86868.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 01:25:42 -0700 > From: Alexander Duyck > > This change increases the RX fifo size to 36K for standard frames and > decreases the TX fifo size to 4K. The reason for this change is that on > slower systems the RX is much more likely to backfill and need space than > the TX is. As long as the TX fifo is twice the size of the MTU we should > have more than enough TX fifo. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied.