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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [e1000 2.6 10/11] TxDescriptors -> 1024 default
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:50:56 -0700
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Ricardo C Gonzalez wrote:
> 
> David Miller wrote:
> 
> 
>>Back to the main topic, maybe we should set dev->tx_queue_len to
>>1000 by default for all ethernet devices.
> 
> 
> 
> I definately agree with setting the dev->tx_queue_len to 1000 as a default
> for all ethernet adapters. All adapters will benefit from this change.

Except ones where CONFIG_EMBEDDED, maybe?  Not everyone wants
to spend that much memory, even when it's available...