Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:00:00 -0800 From: YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Florian Wilkemeyer <fw@f-ws.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, davidch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_bce tx / rx tick limits Message-ID: <20111130180000.GA9323@michelle.cdnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <4ED63C2D.8020209@f-ws.de> References: <4ED63C2D.8020209@f-ws.de>
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 03:22:37PM +0100, Florian Wilkemeyer wrote: > Hi, > > i wonder about the bce driver's tx / rx tick limits > (ticks and ticks_int are limited to 100; otherwise default value (80) > gets used) > > (if_bce.c line 921 / 933 .. ) > I think this highly depends on firmware of controller. David may be able to answer(CCed). > On DragonFly BSD the values can be set much higher (such as 1000 ..) > which would be great in a high-traffic setup. > (On linux there's no limit too as far as i remember) > No, the value should be represented with 10bits so having no limit looks like a bug in Linux. > > > Is there any reason why its limited down to 100? > > > Thanks > Florian > > > P.S. > I'm sorry if this was the wrong mailing list for it; i don't know whats > the right list for this (probably net or driver ?)
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