[PATCH 1/1] staging: hv: Doubled ringbuffer size for Hyper-v networkdriver

From: Hank Janssen
Date: Tue Oct 12 2010 - 13:41:14 EST



From: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Double the default network ringsize buffer for Hyper-V network driver.
In very heavily loaded systems the there is a chance you run out of
ringbuffer space and error out.

Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
index 56e1157..45e082a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ struct netvsc_driver_context {
/* Need this many pages to handle worst case fragmented packet */
#define PACKET_PAGES_HIWATER (MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2)

-static int ring_size = roundup_pow_of_two(2*MAX_SKB_FRAGS+1);
+static int ring_size = 128;
module_param(ring_size, int, S_IRUGO);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(ring_size, "Ring buffer size (# of pages)");

--
1.6.0.2


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