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Date:	Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:15:44 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: make msi-x different name for rx-tx


* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Cool cleanups!
> > 
> > Would you mind to also fix the following - on all my systems that have 
> > forcedeth gigabit ethernet i've been getting these bogus warnings for 
> > _years_, under moderate load:
> > 
> >   eth2: too many iterations (16) in nv_nic_irq.
> > 
> > I think a 64 iterations limit will work much better. (i tried a limit of 50 
> > a year ago for a while and it worked fine and had no side effects - and the 
> > bogus warnings were done.)
> 
> you may enable CONFIG_FORCEDETH_NAPI.
> 
> we should enable NAPI for forcedeth by default, and try to squash more bugs out.

i do have that:

 CONFIG_FORCEDETH=y
 CONFIG_FORCEDETH_NAPI=y

and the messages still come.

	Ingo
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