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Date:   Fri, 13 Jul 2018 20:17:20 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To:     Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/7] net: mvneta: increase number of buffers
 in RX and TX queue
Message-ID: <20180713191720.GA17271@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 06:18:37PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> From: Yelena Krivosheev <yelena@marvell.com>
> 
> The initial values were too small leading to poor performance when using
> the software buffer management.

What does this do to latency when a large transfer is also ongoing
(iow, the classic bufferbloat issue) ?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Yelena Krivosheev <yelena@marvell.com>
> [gregory: extract from a larger patch]
> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
> index f4e3943a745d..c22df28b07c8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
> @@ -295,10 +295,10 @@
>  #define MVNETA_RSS_LU_TABLE_SIZE	1
>  
>  /* Max number of Rx descriptors */
> -#define MVNETA_MAX_RXD 128
> +#define MVNETA_MAX_RXD 512
>  
>  /* Max number of Tx descriptors */
> -#define MVNETA_MAX_TXD 532
> +#define MVNETA_MAX_TXD 1024
>  
>  /* Max number of allowed TCP segments for software TSO */
>  #define MVNETA_MAX_TSO_SEGS 100
> -- 
> 2.18.0
> 
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