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Message-ID: <20081103043033.13607.2028.stgit@jtkirshe-mobile.jf.intel.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:30:33 -0800
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To: jeff@...zik.org
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@...i.com>
Subject: [UPDATED PATCH] net: kconfig cleanup
The bool kconfig option added to ixgbe and myri10ge for DCA is ambigous,
so this patch adds a description to the kconfig option.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
CC: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@...i.com>
---
drivers/net/Kconfig | 18 +++++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index f749b40..11f143f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -2010,9 +2010,13 @@ config IGB_LRO
If in doubt, say N.
config IGB_DCA
- bool "Enable DCA"
+ bool "Direct Cache Access (DCA) Support"
default y
depends on IGB && DCA && !(IGB=y && DCA=m)
+ ---help---
+ Say Y here if you want to use Direct Cache Access (DCA) in the
+ driver. DCA is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
+ is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.
source "drivers/net/ixp2000/Kconfig"
@@ -2437,9 +2441,13 @@ config IXGBE
will be called ixgbe.
config IXGBE_DCA
- bool
+ bool "Direct Cache Access (DCA) Support"
default y
depends on IXGBE && DCA && !(IXGBE=y && DCA=m)
+ ---help---
+ Say Y here if you want to use Direct Cache Access (DCA) in the
+ driver. DCA is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
+ is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.
config IXGB
tristate "Intel(R) PRO/10GbE support"
@@ -2489,9 +2497,13 @@ config MYRI10GE
will be called myri10ge.
config MYRI10GE_DCA
- bool
+ bool "Direct Cache Access (DCA) Support"
default y
depends on MYRI10GE && DCA && !(MYRI10GE=y && DCA=m)
+ ---help---
+ Say Y here if you want to use Direct Cache Access (DCA) in the
+ driver. DCA is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
+ is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.
config NETXEN_NIC
tristate "NetXen Multi port (1/10) Gigabit Ethernet NIC"
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