From: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlu...@cavium.com> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:18:20 -0700
> From: Intiyaz Basha <intiyaz.ba...@cavium.com> > > Defer ringing the Tx doorbell if skb->xmit_more is set unless the Tx queue > is full or stopped. To keep latency low, use a deferral limit of 8 > packets. We chose 8 because Octeon can fetch at most 8 packets in a single > PCI read, and our tests show that 8 results in low latency. > > Signed-off-by: Intiyaz Basha <intiyaz.ba...@cavium.com> > Signed-off-by: Satanand Burla <satananda.bu...@cavium.com> > Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlu...@cavium.com> > --- > Patch Change Log: > V1 -> V2: > Add a Tx doorbell ring deferral limit as suggested by David Miller Applied, thank you.
