netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] tg3: Limit minimum tx queue wakeup threshold

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Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:00:47 -0700
From:	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
To:	Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.de>
CC:	Prashant Sreedharan <prashant@...adcom.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tg3: Limit minimum tx queue wakeup threshold

On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 11:52 -0700, Benjamin Poirier wrote: 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
> index 3ac5d23..b11c0fd 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
> @@ -202,7 +202,8 @@ static inline void _tg3_flag_clear(enum TG3_FLAGS flag, unsigned long *bits)
>  #endif
>  
>  /* minimum number of free TX descriptors required to wake up TX process */
> -#define TG3_TX_WAKEUP_THRESH(tnapi)            ((tnapi)->tx_pending / 4)
> +#define TG3_TX_WAKEUP_THRESH(tnapi)    max_t(u32, (tnapi)->tx_pending / 4, \
> +                                             MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1)

I think we should precompute this and store it in something like
tp->tx_wake_thresh.

>  #define TG3_TX_BD_DMA_MAX_2K           2048
>  #define TG3_TX_BD_DMA_MAX_4K           4096
>   

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