From d0a81f67cd6286d32f42a167d19c7a387c23db79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 14:56:01 +0100 Subject: net: make default TX queue length a defined constant The default TX queue length of Ethernet devices have been a magic constant of 1000, ever since the initial git import. Looking back in historical trees[1][2] the value used to be 100, with the same comment "Ethernet wants good queues". The commit[3] that changed this from 100 to 1000 didn't describe why, but from conversations with Robert Olsson it seems that it was changed when Ethernet devices went from 100Mbit/s to 1Gbit/s, because the link speed increased x10 the queue size were also adjusted. This value later caused much heartache for the bufferbloat community. This patch merely moves the value into a defined constant. [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/netdev-vger-cvs.git/ [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/ [3] https://git.kernel.org/tglx/history/c/98921832c232 Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/pkt_sched.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/net/pkt_sched.h b/include/net/pkt_sched.h index cd334c9584e9..f1b76b8e6d2d 100644 --- a/include/net/pkt_sched.h +++ b/include/net/pkt_sched.h @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ #include #include +#define DEFAULT_TX_QUEUE_LEN 1000 + struct qdisc_walker { int stop; int skip; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2