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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h
index cb3356c9af8..04668b47a1d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h
@@ -175,13 +175,13 @@ struct e1000_info;
/*
* in the case of WTHRESH, it appears at least the 82571/2 hardware
* writes back 4 descriptors when WTHRESH=5, and 3 descriptors when
- * WTHRESH=4, and since we want 64 bytes at a time written back, set
- * it to 5
+ * WTHRESH=4, so a setting of 5 gives the most efficient bus
+ * utilization but to avoid possible Tx stalls, set it to 1
*/
#define E1000_TXDCTL_DMA_BURST_ENABLE \
(E1000_TXDCTL_GRAN | /* set descriptor granularity */ \
E1000_TXDCTL_COUNT_DESC | \
- (5 << 16) | /* wthresh must be +1 more than desired */\
+ (1 << 16) | /* wthresh must be +1 more than desired */\
(1 << 8) | /* hthresh */ \
0x1f) /* pthresh */