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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h index cb3356c9af80..04668b47a1df 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h @@ -175,13 +175,13 @@ struct e1000_info; /* * in the case of WTHRESH, it appears at least the 82571/2 hardware * writes back 4 descriptors when WTHRESH=5, and 3 descriptors when - * WTHRESH=4, and since we want 64 bytes at a time written back, set - * it to 5 + * WTHRESH=4, so a setting of 5 gives the most efficient bus + * utilization but to avoid possible Tx stalls, set it to 1 */ #define E1000_TXDCTL_DMA_BURST_ENABLE \ (E1000_TXDCTL_GRAN | /* set descriptor granularity */ \ E1000_TXDCTL_COUNT_DESC | \ - (5 << 16) | /* wthresh must be +1 more than desired */\ + (1 << 16) | /* wthresh must be +1 more than desired */\ (1 << 8) | /* hthresh */ \ 0x1f) /* pthresh */ |