diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 3bbeb11bc957..1b78a90488c8 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 793fab727324adc90a0a2889f2b1d88bae4790eb
+refs/heads/master: a4d3c54024beff40d4e5e4647ad212696e0ea354
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb.h b/trunk/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb.h
index a1a7f3b4a62f..50ffe90488ff 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb.h
+++ b/trunk/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb.h
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ struct ixgb_adapter;
 #define IXGB_RXBUFFER_16384 16384
 
 /* How many Rx Buffers do we bundle into one write to the hardware ? */
-#define IXGB_RX_BUFFER_WRITE	4	/* Must be power of 2 */
+#define IXGB_RX_BUFFER_WRITE	8	/* Must be power of 2 */
 
 /* only works for sizes that are powers of 2 */
 #define IXGB_ROUNDUP(i, size) ((i) = (((i) + (size) - 1) & ~((size) - 1)))