From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next patch 8/12] bnx2x: Allow up to 63 RSS queues default 8 queues Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:36:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20120614.133649.794229745961162963.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1339595609.13000.15.camel@lb-tlvb-eilong.il.broadcom.com> <20120613.153517.901328280865603627.davem@davemloft.net> <1339688046.20038.3.camel@lb-tlvb-meravs.il.broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: eilong@broadcom.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: meravs@broadcom.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:43543 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756085Ab2FNUgv (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:36:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1339688046.20038.3.camel@lb-tlvb-meravs.il.broadcom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Merav Sicron" Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:34:06 +0300 > That's why we think (and so does Eric Dumazet) that it is better > to have a smaller default number which is good for most cases. > Do you agree with that? What I think is that the thing which is more important than the default we choose, is that it is consistently followed by all multiqueue drivers. By blazing your own unique path here, that is nearly guaranteed not to happen. I'd much rather have a bad default that every driver adheres to.