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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/Kconfig18
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index f749b40f954..11f143f4adf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -2010,9 +2010,13 @@ config IGB_LRO
If in doubt, say N.
config IGB_DCA
- bool "Enable DCA"
+ bool "Direct Cache Access (DCA) Support"
default y
depends on IGB && DCA && !(IGB=y && DCA=m)
+ ---help---
+ Say Y here if you want to use Direct Cache Access (DCA) in the
+ driver. DCA is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
+ is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.
source "drivers/net/ixp2000/Kconfig"
@@ -2437,9 +2441,13 @@ config IXGBE
will be called ixgbe.
config IXGBE_DCA
- bool
+ bool "Direct Cache Access (DCA) Support"
default y
depends on IXGBE && DCA && !(IXGBE=y && DCA=m)
+ ---help---
+ Say Y here if you want to use Direct Cache Access (DCA) in the
+ driver. DCA is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
+ is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.
config IXGB
tristate "Intel(R) PRO/10GbE support"
@@ -2489,9 +2497,13 @@ config MYRI10GE
will be called myri10ge.
config MYRI10GE_DCA
- bool
+ bool "Direct Cache Access (DCA) Support"
default y
depends on MYRI10GE && DCA && !(MYRI10GE=y && DCA=m)
+ ---help---
+ Say Y here if you want to use Direct Cache Access (DCA) in the
+ driver. DCA is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
+ is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.
config NETXEN_NIC
tristate "NetXen Multi port (1/10) Gigabit Ethernet NIC"