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* [PATCH 11/13] forcedeth: performance changes
@ 2009-03-05 18:02 Ayaz Abdulla
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From: Ayaz Abdulla @ 2009-03-05 18:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Manfred Spraul, Jeff Garzik, Andrew Morton, David S. Miller,
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This patch modifies the throughput mode poll settings to reduce the 
number of interrupts. This is only used by older hardware that need a 
timer irq in throughput mode.

Secondly, this patch increases the default rx ring from 128 to 512. This 
drastically improves bandwidth utilization for small packets sizes i.e 
512 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>


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--- old/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2009-03-05 10:46:55.000000000 -0800
+++ new/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2009-03-05 10:47:10.000000000 -0800
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
  * NVREG_POLL_DEFAULT=97 would result in an interval length of 1 ms
  */
 	NvRegPollingInterval = 0x00c,
-#define NVREG_POLL_DEFAULT_THROUGHPUT	970 /* backup tx cleanup if loop max reached */
+#define NVREG_POLL_DEFAULT_THROUGHPUT	65535 /* backup tx cleanup if loop max reached */
 #define NVREG_POLL_DEFAULT_CPU	13
 	NvRegMSIMap0 = 0x020,
 	NvRegMSIMap1 = 0x024,
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@
 /* General driver defaults */
 #define NV_WATCHDOG_TIMEO	(5*HZ)
 
-#define RX_RING_DEFAULT		128
+#define RX_RING_DEFAULT		512
 #define TX_RING_DEFAULT		256
 #define RX_RING_MIN		128
 #define TX_RING_MIN		64

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