Subject: [PATCH 12/13] ixgb: fix cache miss due to miscalculation

From: "Kok, Auke" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:56:42 -0700

Reduce writeback threshold by 1. We were instructing the hardware to
wait until the 17th descriptor which went over the cache line limit.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <[email-masked]>
---

 drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
index 7bbd447..770eef2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
@@ -140,12 +140,12 @@ module_param(debug, int, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Debug level (0=none,...,16=all)");
 
 /* some defines for controlling descriptor fetches in h/w */
-#define RXDCTL_WTHRESH_DEFAULT 16	/* chip writes back at this many or RXT0 */
-#define RXDCTL_PTHRESH_DEFAULT 0		/* chip considers prefech below
-						 * this */
-#define RXDCTL_HTHRESH_DEFAULT 0		/* chip will only prefetch if tail
-						 * is pushed this many descriptors
-						 * from head */
+#define RXDCTL_WTHRESH_DEFAULT 15  /* chip writes back at this many or RXT0 */
+#define RXDCTL_PTHRESH_DEFAULT 0   /* chip considers prefech below
+                                    * this */
+#define RXDCTL_HTHRESH_DEFAULT 0   /* chip will only prefetch if tail
+                                    * is pushed this many descriptors
+                                    * from head */
 
 /**
  * ixgb_init_module - Driver Registration Routine

--
Auke Kok <[email-masked]>