[PATCH net-next v13 3/3] net: hisilicon: new hip04 ethernet driver

[Ding Tianhong]

On 2015/1/14 16:53, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 January 2015 14:34:14 Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> +#define HIP04_MAX_TX_COALESCE_USECS    200
>> +#define HIP04_MIN_TX_COALESCE_USECS    100
>> +#define HIP04_MAX_TX_COALESCE_FRAMES   200
>> +#define HIP04_MIN_TX_COALESCE_FRAMES   100
> 
> It's not important, but in case you are creating another version of the
> patch, maybe the allowed range can be extended somewhat. The example values
> I picked when I sent my suggestion were really made up. It's great if
> they work fine, but users might want to  tune this far more depending on
> their workloads,  How about these
> 
> #define HIP04_MAX_TX_COALESCE_USECS    100000
> #define HIP04_MIN_TX_COALESCE_USECS    1
> #define HIP04_MAX_TX_COALESCE_FRAMES   (TX_DESC_NUM - 1)
> #define HIP04_MIN_TX_COALESCE_FRAMES   1
> 

Is it really ok that the so big range may break the driver and hip04 could not work fine?
I am not sure it is ok, I will fix it in next version.
 
Ding

> 	Arnd
> 
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