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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 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 */ diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c index de57a2ba6bde..f444eb0b76d8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c @@ -2831,7 +2831,7 @@ static void e1000_configure_tx(struct e1000_adapter *adapter) * set up some performance related parameters to encourage the * hardware to use the bus more efficiently in bursts, depends * on the tx_int_delay to be enabled, - * wthresh = 5 ==> burst write a cacheline (64 bytes) at a time + * wthresh = 1 ==> burst write is disabled to avoid Tx stalls * hthresh = 1 ==> prefetch when one or more available * pthresh = 0x1f ==> prefetch if internal cache 31 or less * BEWARE: this seems to work but should be considered first if |