netdev - [net-next 04/11] ixgbe: show <2% for encoding loss on PCIe Gen3

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Date:	Tue, 29 Oct 2013 05:02:24 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: [net-next  04/11] ixgbe: show <2% for encoding loss on PCIe Gen3

From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>

This patch updates the ixgbe_check_minimum_link function to correctly show that
there is some minor loss of encoding, even though we don't calculate it in the
max GT/s equation. It is small enough to not bother, but is better to report it
than not.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index ee90dfb..9753c8a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static void ixgbe_check_minimum_link(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
 		max_gts = 4 * width;
 		break;
 	case PCIE_SPEED_8_0GT:
-		/* 128b/130b encoding only reduces throughput by 1% */
+		/* 128b/130b encoding reduces throughput by less than 2% */
 		max_gts = 8 * width;
 		break;
 	default:
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ static void ixgbe_check_minimum_link(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
 		   width,
 		   (speed == PCIE_SPEED_2_5GT ? "20%" :
 		    speed == PCIE_SPEED_5_0GT ? "20%" :
-		    speed == PCIE_SPEED_8_0GT ? "N/a" :
+		    speed == PCIE_SPEED_8_0GT ? "<2%" :
 		    "Unknown"));
 
 	if (max_gts < expected_gts) {
-- 
1.8.3.1

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