net: make default TX queue length a defined constant
authorJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Thu, 3 Nov 2016 13:56:01 +0000 (14:56 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 8 Nov 2016 01:15:55 +0000 (20:15 -0500)
commitd0a81f67cd6286d32f42a167d19c7a387c23db79
tree6f0916931fbabec1fa375adf6df254baa72408d9
parentfc13fd3986257882a69581c3c8203221053f474d
net: make default TX queue length a defined constant

The default TX queue length of Ethernet devices have been a magic
constant of 1000, ever since the initial git import.

Looking back in historical trees[1][2] the value used to be 100,
with the same comment "Ethernet wants good queues". The commit[3]
that changed this from 100 to 1000 didn't describe why, but from
conversations with Robert Olsson it seems that it was changed
when Ethernet devices went from 100Mbit/s to 1Gbit/s, because the
link speed increased x10 the queue size were also adjusted.  This
value later caused much heartache for the bufferbloat community.

This patch merely moves the value into a defined constant.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/netdev-vger-cvs.git/
[2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/
[3] https://git.kernel.org/tglx/history/c/98921832c232

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/net/pkt_sched.h
net/ethernet/eth.c