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Hi,

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There are following code in function ixgbe_xmit_pkts,

....

if ((txq->nb_tx_desc - txq->nb_tx_free) > txq->tx_free_thresh) {

                ixgbe_xmit_cleanup(txq);

}

....

My understanding is, nb_tx_desc means total number of descriptors in
ring and nx_tx_free represents how many descriptors are available, so
txq->nb_tx_desc - txq->nb_tx_free means how many we have used. I'm not
quite understand the meaning of this comparison.  Why is the condition
not something like "if (txq->nb_tx_free < tx_free_thresh)".=20

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really appreciate if someone could help me on this.

=20

Thanks

Qing