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[v7,6/9] bgmac: increase rx ring size from 511 to 512

Message ID 1429006082-23489-6-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Felix Fietkau April 14, 2015, 10:07 a.m. UTC
Limiting it to 511 looks like a failed attempt at leaving one descriptor
empty to allow the hardware to stop processing a buffer that has not
been prepared yet. However, this doesn't work because this affects the
total ring size as well

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.h
index 3db0d52..e45e303 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.h
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ 
 #define BGMAC_MAX_RX_RINGS			1
 
 #define BGMAC_TX_RING_SLOTS			128
-#define BGMAC_RX_RING_SLOTS			512 - 1		/* Why -1? Well, Broadcom does that... */
+#define BGMAC_RX_RING_SLOTS			512
 
 #define BGMAC_RX_HEADER_LEN			28		/* Last 24 bytes are unused. Well... */
 #define BGMAC_RX_FRAME_OFFSET			30		/* There are 2 unused bytes between header and real data */