netdev - Re: [net-next patch 8/12] bnx2x: Allow up to 63 RSS queues default 8 queues

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Message-Id: <20120614.133649.794229745961162963.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:36:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	meravs@...adcom.com
Cc:	eilong@...adcom.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next patch 8/12] bnx2x: Allow up to 63 RSS queues default
 8 queues

From: "Merav Sicron" <meravs@...adcom.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:34:06 +0300

> That's why we think (and so does Eric Dumazet) that it is better
> to have a smaller default number which is good for most cases.
> Do you agree with that?

What I think is that the thing which is more important than the
default we choose, is that it is consistently followed by all
multiqueue drivers.

By blazing your own unique path here, that is nearly guaranteed not to
happen.

I'd much rather have a bad default that every driver adheres to.
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