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From: "Vick, Matthew" <matthew.vick@intel•com>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat•com>
Cc: "netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"e1000-devel@lists•sourceforge.net"
	<e1000-devel@lists•sourceforge.net>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com>,
	Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat•com>,
	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igb: fix PHC stopping on max freq
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:55:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CD6F8B97.167F1%matthew.vick@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130320201153.7fc5e844@griffin>

On 3/20/13 12:11 PM, "Jiri Benc" <jbenc@redhat•com> wrote:

>On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:17:25 +0000, Vick, Matthew wrote:
>> Good catch on this, Jiri! I know the math works out the same, but I'd
>> prefer it if you changed the max_adj value to 999999999, since that is
>> technically what we can accept before we have any issues. If you
>>re-submit
>> with this change, I'll add my ACK and we can run it through our internal
>> testing. Thanks!
>
>But the real maximum value is actually 999999881, as anything higher
>than that would be capped to 999999881 by the driver. I don't think the
>driver should advertise higher max_adj than it is able to fulfill,
>otherwise there would be no need for the field.

I prefer 999999999 as it's something that looks slightly less "magic
number"-y (plus looks like the other devices in igb) and is still
technically something that can be passed down without error. Ultimately
not a big deal and I can understand your argument, so I'm okay putting my
personal preference aside on this one.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-19 14:42 [PATCH] igb: fix PHC stopping on max freq Jiri Benc
2013-03-19 21:17 ` Vick, Matthew
2013-03-20 19:11   ` Jiri Benc
2013-03-20 22:55     ` Vick, Matthew [this message]
2013-03-20  0:49 ` Jeff Kirsher
2013-04-09 13:26   ` [E1000-devel] " Richard Cochran

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