netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] r8169: remove fiddling with the PCIe max read request size

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Date:   Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:36:17 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] r8169: remove fiddling with the PCIe max
 read request size

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:21:23 +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> The attempt to improve performance by changing the PCIe max read request
> size was added in the vendor driver more than 10 years back and copied
> to r8169 driver. In the vendor driver this has been removed long ago.
> Obviously it had no effect, also in my tests I didn't see any
> difference. Typically the max payload size is less than 512 bytes
> anyway, and the PCI core takes care that the maximum supported value
> is set. So let's remove fiddling with PCIe max read request size from
> r8169 too. This change allows to simplify the driver in the subsequent
> three patches of this series.

Applied, thanks!