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Date:      Wed, 4 Jul 2018 18:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r335967 - head/sys/dev/mxge
Message-ID:  <201807050120.w651KP5K045633@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <658fb418-5a84-dc91-2cc8-1a503a3d43a6@cs.duke.edu>

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> On 07/04/18 15:46, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >> Author: gallatin
> >> Date: Wed Jul  4 19:29:06 2018
> >> New Revision: 335967
> >> URL: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__svnweb.freebsd.org_changeset_base_335967&d=DwICAg&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=Ed-falealxPeqc22ehgAUCLh8zlZbibZLSMWJeZro4A&m=2rIiw5AUJ2ishkBkygGMa_9kr0LJOaonX8ni3BF2BHk&s=MwCt6_IgNah0XklsYThsXFcwZD54Xl78TRlnFXJ4zWs&e=
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>    mxge: choose appropriate values for hw tso
> >>
> >> Modified:
> >>    head/sys/dev/mxge/if_mxge.c
> >>
> >> Modified: head/sys/dev/mxge/if_mxge.c
> >> ==============================================================================
> >> --- head/sys/dev/mxge/if_mxge.c	Wed Jul  4 18:54:44 2018	(r335966)
> >> +++ head/sys/dev/mxge/if_mxge.c	Wed Jul  4 19:29:06 2018	(r335967)
> >> @@ -4984,6 +4984,9 @@ mxge_attach(device_t dev)
> >>   	ifp->if_ioctl = mxge_ioctl;
> >>   	ifp->if_start = mxge_start;
> >>   	ifp->if_get_counter = mxge_get_counter;
> >> +	ifp->if_hw_tsomax = 65536 - (ETHER_HDR_LEN + ETHER_VLAN_ENCAP_LEN);
> > 
> > Would not this be more accurate (need to reorder assigns):
> > 	ifp->if_hw_tsomax = ifp->if_hw_tsomaxsegsize - (ETHER_HDR_LEN + ETHER_VLAN_ENCAP_LEN);
> > 
> >> +	ifp->if_hw_tsomaxsegcount = sc->ss[0].tx.max_desc;
> >> +	ifp->if_hw_tsomaxsegsize = 65536;
> 
> 
> It seems simpler as-is to me. 

It is using a magic constant twice, where one has a
derived value that is dependent on the value of the other.
That is bad and error prone and does not document that
one depends on the other.  Please fix this.  Or at least
make 65536 a #define so that it only needs changed one
place and clearly shows the interdependence of these
values.

> Looking around at other drivers, I see
> at least one (cxgbe) which does the same thing.

Bad examples are usually easy to find.

> After doing the grep, I'm more concerned with drivers which may
> be setting their tsomaxsegsize  incorrectly to be too small and
> hurting their performance by causing TCP to chop needlessly
> at smaller boundaries which are already enforced by their
> busdma tags.  PAGE_SIZE, which seems to be the common mistaken
> size, won't hurt too much I suppose.  But the default of 2K
> is probably not very good.
> 
> Drew
> 
> 

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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