On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:53:06 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 13:38 +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 10:50 +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > > > > Performance tests done by AMCC have shown that 256 buffer increase the > > > > performance of the Linux EMAC driver. So let's update the default > > > > values to match this setup. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --- > > > > > > Do we have the numbers ? Did they also measure latency ? > > > > I hoped this question would not come. ;) No, unfortunately I don't have any > > numbers. Just the recommendation from AMCC to always use 256 buffers. > > Ok. Well, it's just a .config option so I suppose the patch is fine. Can > you also update the defconfigs (at least for the recent AMCC boards) ? No need for a defconfig update patch. Paul or I usually do a general defconfig update for most boards before the next kernel version. This will get picked up then. josh _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
