Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/sfc: improve Rx free threshold default

2019-04-05 Thread Ferruh Yigit
On 4/5/2019 1:05 PM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote: > Rx refill in one bulk (which is just 8 descriptors) by default is too > aggressive and makes too many MMIO writes (Rx doorbells) if packet rate > is high. Setting default to 1/8 of Rx descriptors number shows good > performance results. Anyway it is a

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/sfc: improve Rx free threshold default

2019-04-05 Thread Andrew Rybchenko
Rx refill in one bulk (which is just 8 descriptors) by default is too aggressive and makes too many MMIO writes (Rx doorbells) if packet rate is high. Setting default to 1/8 of Rx descriptors number shows good performance results. Anyway it is a default value which may be overridden by Rx configura