Re: [PATCH v2] Add support of Cavium Liquidio ethernet adapters
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-11-24 21:01:22
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-11-24 21:01:22
On 11/23/2014 07:19 PM, Raghu Vatsavayi wrote:
+if LIQUIDIO + +config LIQUIDIO_NAPI + bool "Enable NAPI for LiquidIO" + default y + ---help--- + NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load + when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. You + would only disable this feature in very specific instances, like + an application that very rapidly sets up and tears down connections. + + If in doubt, say Y.
You probably do not want to offer a non-NAPI variant, pretty much all drivers have NAPI built-in now.
+ +config LIQUIDIO_DEBUG + int "Debug level for LiquidIO" + range 0 4 + default 0 + ---help--- + Enables more extensive debug output. This may negatively + affect performance, so use values > 0 with caution. + 0 disables extra debug + 1 enables general messages + 2 enables register access messages + 3 enables debug messages + 4 enables flow messages + + If in doubt, say 0.
This should be moved to dynamic_debug/ethtools' msglvl control knob. -- Florian