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

[Andrew Lunn]

> Heavy incoming traffic on some heavy load system, the max 1024 limit defined
> by DMA_MAX_RX_SIZE in drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/common.h is too
> few to achieve high throughput for XGMAC.
> With this patch, ethtool can set a new length than 1024

Please include some benchmark results to show the improvement.

But at some point, more buffers don't help you. If you are
consistently overloaded, you will still overflow the buffers.  So you
might want to look at where is the bottleneck and how do you
prioritise processing packets over whatever else is loading the
system.

Maybe this would help, if the bus is the problem:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg1006370.html

	Andrew