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| author | Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> | 2019-02-21 18:29:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2019-02-22 13:32:55 +0100 |
| commit | 5c14a4d05f68415af9e41a4e667d1748d41d1baf (patch) | |
| tree | e8a60ae7844bab16281d898bc03e6cc4cd70b6db /net/mac80211 | |
| parent | 17407715240456448e4989bee46ffc93991add83 (diff) | |
mac80211: Change default tx_sk_pacing_shift to 7
When we did the original tests for the optimal value of sk_pacing_shift, we
came up with 6 ms of buffering as the default. Sadly, 6 is not a power of
two, so when picking the shift value I erred on the size of less buffering
and picked 4 ms instead of 8. This was probably wrong; those 2 ms of extra
buffering makes a larger difference than I thought.
So, change the default pacing shift to 7, which corresponds to 8 ms of
buffering. The point of diminishing returns really kicks in after 8 ms, and
so having this as a default should cut down on the need for extensive
per-device testing and overrides needed in the drivers.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/main.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index 87a729926734..977dea436ee8 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -615,13 +615,13 @@ struct ieee80211_hw *ieee80211_alloc_hw_nm(size_t priv_data_len, * We need a bit of data queued to build aggregates properly, so * instruct the TCP stack to allow more than a single ms of data * to be queued in the stack. The value is a bit-shift of 1 - * second, so 8 is ~4ms of queued data. Only affects local TCP + * second, so 7 is ~8ms of queued data. Only affects local TCP * sockets. * This is the default, anyhow - drivers may need to override it * for local reasons (longer buffers, longer completion time, or * similar). */ - local->hw.tx_sk_pacing_shift = 8; + local->hw.tx_sk_pacing_shift = 7; /* set up some defaults */ local->hw.queues = 1; |