Commit 000725d5 authored by Chris Leech's avatar Chris Leech Committed by Dan Williams

ioatdma: Push pending transactions to hardware more frequently

Every 20 descriptors turns out to be to few append commands with
newer/faster CPUs.  Pushing every 4 still cuts down on MMIO writes to an
acceptable level without letting the DMA engine run out of work.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
parent 7dcca30a
......@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ static dma_cookie_t do_ioat_dma_memcpy(struct ioat_dma_chan *ioat_chan,
list_splice_init(&new_chain, ioat_chan->used_desc.prev);
ioat_chan->pending += desc_count;
if (ioat_chan->pending >= 20) {
if (ioat_chan->pending >= 4) {
append = 1;
ioat_chan->pending = 0;
}
......@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ static void __devexit ioat_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
}
/* MODULE API */
MODULE_VERSION("1.7");
MODULE_VERSION("1.9");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Intel Corporation");
......
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