netdev - [PATCH net-next] r8169: align number of tx descriptors with vendor driver

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Message-ID: <a52a6de4-f792-5038-ae2f-240d3b7860eb@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 1 Nov 2020 23:23:52 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] r8169: align number of tx descriptors with vendor
 driver

Lowest number of tx descriptors used in the vendor drivers is 256 in
r8169. r8101/r8168/r8125 use 1024 what seems to be the hw limit. Stay
on the safe side and go with 256, same as number of rx descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
index ecdc0c36c..a426eed78 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 
 #define R8169_REGS_SIZE		256
 #define R8169_RX_BUF_SIZE	(SZ_16K - 1)
-#define NUM_TX_DESC	64	/* Number of Tx descriptor registers */
+#define NUM_TX_DESC	256	/* Number of Tx descriptor registers */
 #define NUM_RX_DESC	256U	/* Number of Rx descriptor registers */
 #define R8169_TX_RING_BYTES	(NUM_TX_DESC * sizeof(struct TxDesc))
 #define R8169_RX_RING_BYTES	(NUM_RX_DESC * sizeof(struct RxDesc))
-- 
2.29.2