Re: [2.6.19 PATCH 3/7] ehea: queue management

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Aug 18 2006 - 12:15:02 EST


On Friday 18 August 2006 16:24, Christoph Raisch wrote:
> And as always in performance tuning... one size fits all unfortunately is
> not the correct answer.

Ah, good. What is the maximum sensible value that you came up with?

> Therefore we'll leave that open to the user as most other new ethernet
> driver did as well.

Sure. The interesting question is whether you want to allow users
to set it to a value that is no longer sensible to do with
__get_free_pages() and requires vmalloc().

Arnd <><
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