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>

diff --git a/include/net/pkt_sched.h b/include/net/pkt_sched.h
index cd334c9..f1b76b8 100644 (file)
--- a/include/net/pkt_sched.h
+++ b/include/net/pkt_sched.h
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 #include <linux/if_vlan.h>
 #include <net/sch_generic.h>
 
+#define DEFAULT_TX_QUEUE_LEN   1000
+
 struct qdisc_walker {
        int     stop;
        int     skip;

diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c
index d9e2fe1..8c5a479 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
+++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
 #include <net/dsa.h>
 #include <net/flow_dissector.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <net/pkt_sched.h>
 
 __setup("ether=", netdev_boot_setup);
 
@@ -359,7 +360,7 @@ void ether_setup(struct net_device *dev)
        dev->min_mtu            = ETH_MIN_MTU;
        dev->max_mtu            = ETH_DATA_LEN;
        dev->addr_len           = ETH_ALEN;
-       dev->tx_queue_len       = 1000; /* Ethernet wants good queues */
+       dev->tx_queue_len       = DEFAULT_TX_QUEUE_LEN;
        dev->flags              = IFF_BROADCAST|IFF_MULTICAST;
        dev->priv_flags         |= IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING;