From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 2/5] ixgbe: increase default TX ring buffer to 1024 Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 13:49:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20140514.134950.1208688313542719676.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20140514141545.20309.28343.stgit@dragon> <20140514141748.20309.83121.stgit@dragon> <537399C2.8070908@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: brouer@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, dborkman@redhat.com, fw@strlen.de, shemminger@vyatta.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, robert@herjulf.se, greearb@candelatech.com, john.r.fastabend@intel.com, danieltt@kth.se, zhouzhouyi@gmail.com To: alexander.h.duyck@intel.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:52797 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750964AbaENRtx (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2014 13:49:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <537399C2.8070908@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Alexander Duyck Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:28:50 -0700 > I'd say that it might be better to just add a note to the documentation > folder indicating what configuration is optimal for pktgen rather then > changing everyone's defaults to support one specific test. We could have drivers provide a pktgen config adjustment mechanism, so if someone starts pktgen then the device auto-adjusts to a pktgen optimal configuration (whatever that may entail).