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authorJoe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>2008-10-29 14:22:16 -0700
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>2008-11-02 08:30:43 -0500
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forcdeth: increase max_interrupt_work
This eliminates the following often-generated warning from my 64 bit Opteron SMP test stand: eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq According to the web, the problem is that the forcedeth driver has a too-low value for max_interrupt_work. Grepping the kernel I see that forcedeth has the second lowest value of all ethernet drivers (ie, 6). Most are in the 20-40 range. So this patch increases this a bit, from 6 to 15 (at 15 forcedeth becomes the driver with third-lowest max_interrupt_work value). My test stand, which used to print out the above warnings repetitively whenever it was under heavy net load, no longer does so. Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
index 74c588efa92e..0b12e48d5f37 100644
--- a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ struct fe_priv {
* Maximum number of loops until we assume that a bit in the irq mask
* is stuck. Overridable with module param.
*/
-static int max_interrupt_work = 5;
+static int max_interrupt_work = 15;
/*
* Optimization can be either throuput mode or cpu mode