Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: lpc_eth: Increase number of TX descriptors

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Jun 11 2012 - 04:11:15 EST


From: Roland Stigge <stigge@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:03:12 +0200

> Since we have enough SRAM, we can increase the number of TX descriptors, so the
> "BUSY" warning about occupied TX descriptors doesn't need to show up as often.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roland Stigge <stigge@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Alexandre Pereira da Silva <aletes.xgr@xxxxxxxxx>

This is way too terse, and as I described in my reply to your first
patch it is not normal for the transmit function to be invoked when
there are no TX descriptors available. That's a bug if it is happening.
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