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[73.97.222.46]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o7sm15743675pfb.76.2016.05.27.13.51.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 27 May 2016 13:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: svn commit: r300868 - head/tools/tools/ioat Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_6BA84278-B514-4E5B-9E9E-5774B6B528B6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 2.6b2 From: "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 13:51:15 -0700 Cc: Garrett Cooper , src-committers , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Message-Id: <2F93033E-D202-4A0A-8555-76ED789D4080@gmail.com> References: <201605272012.u4RKCWCI035708@repo.freebsd.org> To: cem@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 20:51:18 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_6BA84278-B514-4E5B-9E9E-5774B6B528B6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On May 27, 2016, at 13:34, Conrad Meyer wrote: >=20 > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Garrett Cooper = wrote: >> Author: ngie >> Date: Fri May 27 20:12:32 2016 >> New Revision: 300868 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/300868 >>=20 >> Log: >> Remove note about bogus chain-len maximum >>=20 >> There's no current limit on chain-len with Broadwell DE chips; it = isn't >> enforced in software, and there doesn't appear to be a hardware = limitation >> either on the Intel Xeon D-1527 (Broadwell-DE) chip. >=20 > Hi Ngie, >=20 > The note isn't bogus, it's just not what you think it is=E2=80=94the = limit is > in the ioat_test code, not a limit of the hardware. >=20 > Before this commit which documented it (r289733), the limit *was* 4. > However, in the same commit I bumped the limit up to 128 > (IOAT_MAX_BUFS / 2). (I suspect I wrote the documentation first, > before deciding to raise the limit.) >=20 > So the current limit is 128, and should be documented. Ah=E2=80=A6 that makes sense. Would it be a better idea to make this = limit into a readonly sysctl in ioat_test(4), along with the other = limits? If so, I=E2=80=99ll put that out for CR. 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