linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v1] net: stmmac: xgmac: increase length limit of descriptor ring

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Message-ID: <8b60942a-0ab5-41b2-994d-594e09eff8cc@lunn.ch>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:23:36 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Furong Xu <0x1207@...il.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
	Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
	Joao Pinto <jpinto@...opsys.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	xfr@...look.com, rock.xu@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1] net: stmmac: xgmac: increase length limit of
 descriptor ring

On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 04:52:00PM +0800, Furong Xu wrote:
> DWXGMAC CORE supports a ring length of 65536 descriptors, bump max length
> from 1024 to 65536

If anything, you want to be reducing the number of descriptors,
especially for TX.

Does stmmac implement BQL? If not, try adding that, so packets are
kept in the queues for longer, and only passed to the MAC at a rate it
can put them on the wire.

    Andrew

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