netdev - Re: [PATCH 11/13] forcedeth: performance changes

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Message-Id: <20090310.053251.95124563.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:32:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	aabdulla@...dia.com
Cc:	manfred@...orfullife.com, jgarzik@...ox.com, akpm@...l.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/13] forcedeth: performance changes

From: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:02:30 -0500

> This patch modifies the throughput mode poll settings to reduce the number of interrupts. This is only used by older hardware that need a timer irq in throughput mode.
> 
> Secondly, this patch increases the default rx ring from 128 to 512. This drastically improves bandwidth utilization for small packets sizes i.e 512 bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>

Applied.
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