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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Subject: Re: [UPDATED PATCH] net: kconfig cleanup
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:26:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <490F5E64.6030207@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081103043033.13607.2028.stgit@jtkirshe-mobile.jf.intel.com>

Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> The bool kconfig option added to ixgbe and myri10ge for DCA is ambigous,
> so this patch adds a description to the kconfig option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
> CC: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/net/Kconfig |   18 +++++++++++++++---
>  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
> index f749b40..11f143f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
> @@ -2010,9 +2010,13 @@ config IGB_LRO
>  	  If in doubt, say N.
>  
>  config IGB_DCA
> -	bool "Enable DCA"
> +	bool "Direct Cache Access (DCA) Support"
>  	default y
>  	depends on IGB && DCA && !(IGB=y && DCA=m)
> +	---help---
> +	  Say Y here if you want to use Direct Cache Access (DCA) in the
> +	  driver.  DCA is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
> +	  is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.
>  
>  source "drivers/net/ixp2000/Kconfig"
>  
> @@ -2437,9 +2441,13 @@ config IXGBE
>  	  will be called ixgbe.
>  
>  config IXGBE_DCA
> -	bool
> +	bool "Direct Cache Access (DCA) Support"
>  	default y
>  	depends on IXGBE && DCA && !(IXGBE=y && DCA=m)
> +	---help---
> +	  Say Y here if you want to use Direct Cache Access (DCA) in the
> +	  driver.  DCA is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
> +	  is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.
>  
>  config IXGB
>  	tristate "Intel(R) PRO/10GbE support"
> @@ -2489,9 +2497,13 @@ config MYRI10GE
>  	  will be called myri10ge.
>  
>  config MYRI10GE_DCA
> -	bool
> +	bool "Direct Cache Access (DCA) Support"
>  	default y
>  	depends on MYRI10GE && DCA && !(MYRI10GE=y && DCA=m)
> +	---help---
> +	  Say Y here if you want to use Direct Cache Access (DCA) in the
> +	  driver.  DCA is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
> +	  is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.
>  

applied



      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-03 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-03  4:30 [UPDATED PATCH] net: kconfig cleanup Jeff Kirsher
2008-11-03 13:04 ` Andrew Gallatin
2008-11-03 20:26 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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