On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
> > > > +bool adf_should_back_off(struct adf_etr_ring_data *ring)
> > > > +{
> > > > + return atomic_read(ring->inflights) >
> > > > ADF_MAX_INFLIGHTS(ring->ring_size, ring->msg_size) * 15 / 16;
> > > How did you came up with 15/16?
> >
> > I want the sender to back off before the queue is full, to avoid
> > busy-waiting. There may be more concurrent senders, so we want to back off
> > at some point before the queue is full.
> Yes, I understood this. My question was about the actual number.
> 93% of the depth of the queue.
I just guessed the value. If you have some benchmark, you can try
different values, to test if they perform better.
Mikulas
