[PATCH] ibm_newemac: Increase number of default rx-/tx-buffers

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Sat Jan 5 20:50:09 EST 2008


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 <sr at denx.de>
---
 drivers/net/ibm_newemac/Kconfig |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/Kconfig
index 0d3e738..5a06727 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/Kconfig
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ config IBM_NEW_EMAC
 config IBM_NEW_EMAC_RXB
 	int "Number of receive buffers"
 	depends on IBM_NEW_EMAC
-	default "128"
+	default "256"
 
 config IBM_NEW_EMAC_TXB
 	int "Number of transmit buffers"
 	depends on IBM_NEW_EMAC
-	default "64"
+	default "256"
 
 config IBM_NEW_EMAC_POLL_WEIGHT
 	int "MAL NAPI polling weight"
-- 
1.5.4.rc2




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