[PATCH net-next v1] net: stmmac: xgmac: increase length limit of descriptor ring

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Thu Jun 20 06:23:36 PDT 2024


On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 04:52:00PM +0800, Furong Xu wrote:
> DWXGMAC CORE supports a ring length of 65536 descriptors, bump max length
> from 1024 to 65536

If anything, you want to be reducing the number of descriptors,
especially for TX.

Does stmmac implement BQL? If not, try adding that, so packets are
kept in the queues for longer, and only passed to the MAC at a rate it
can put them on the wire.

    Andrew

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