From b1cb82566242fbb54d5c655e23995a8f7bd37ecf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: stephen hemminger Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:42:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] sky2: reduce default Tx ring size The default Tx ring size for the sky2 driver is quite large and could cause excess buffer bloat for many users. The minimum ring size possible and still allow handling the worst case packet on 64bit platforms is 38 which gets rounded up to a power of 2. But most packets only require a couple of ring elements. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c index 98d435a..3777fb3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ #define MAX_SKB_TX_LE (2 + (sizeof(dma_addr_t)/sizeof(u32))*(MAX_SKB_FRAGS+1)) #define TX_MIN_PENDING (MAX_SKB_TX_LE+1) #define TX_MAX_PENDING 1024 -#define TX_DEF_PENDING 127 +#define TX_DEF_PENDING 63 #define TX_WATCHDOG (5 * HZ) #define NAPI_WEIGHT 64 -- 2.7.4