netdev - Re: [net, 3/6] net: korina: increase tx/rx ring sizes

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Message-Id: <20170117.125844.253301507252169868.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:58:44 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     leroi.lists@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net, 3/6] net: korina: increase tx/rx ring sizes

From: Roman Yeryomin <leroi.lists@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:32:36 +0200

> Having larger ring sizes almost eliminates rx fifo overflow, thus improving performance.
> This patch reduces rx overflow occurence by approximately 1000 times (from ~25k down to ~25 times per 3M frames)

Those numbers don't mean much without full context.

What kind of system, what kind of traffic, and over what kind of link?