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From: "Lu, Wenzhuo" <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] igb PMD should set the default tx wthresh correctly.
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:52:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6A0DE07E22DDAD4C9103DF62FEBC0909CFAAE6@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150716101650.45c0e25a@urahara>

Hi Stephen,
I don't think there's a conflict. The message just reminder us that we can adjust the values to achieve better performance.
I saw ixgbe and i40e also use 0 as the same default value. To my opinion, it's good to keep the same behavior.
Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemming@brocade.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 1:17 AM
> To: Lu, Wenzhuo
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: igb PMD should set the default tx wthresh correctly.
> 
> Why doesn't igb driver set the wthresh it wants as default?
> 
> I see:
> 	PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): To improve 1G driver performance,
> consider setting the TX WTHRESH value to 4, 8, or 16.
> 
> But the default tx_conf has wthresh of 0.
> 
> 	#define IGB_DEFAULT_TX_WTHRESH      0
> 
> 
> Either message should be removed or default TX wthresh should change.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-17  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-16 17:16 Stephen Hemminger
2015-07-17  0:52 ` Lu, Wenzhuo [this message]
2015-07-17  2:49   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-07-17  8:15     ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-17 11:06       ` Wiles, Keith
2015-07-20  2:16         ` Lu, Wenzhuo

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