From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.19 PATCH 3/7] ehea: queue management
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:16:51 +0200
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On Friday 18 August 2006 16:24, Christoph Raisch wrote:
> And as always in performance tuning... one size fits all unfortunately is
> not the correct answer.

Ah, good. What is the maximum sensible value that you came up with?

> Therefore we'll leave that open to the user as most other new ethernet
> driver did as well.

Sure. The interesting question is whether you want to allow users
to set it to a value that is no longer sensible to do with
__get_free_pages() and requires vmalloc().

	Arnd <><