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Message-ID: <20080827142136.GA22262@tsunami.ccur.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:21:36 -0400
From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@...r.com>
To: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...hat.com>,
Tobias Diedrich <ranma+kernel@...edrich.de>,
Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [ETH] forcdeth: increase max_interrupt_work
Forcedeth: 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@...r.com>
Index: 2.6.27-rc4-git4/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.27-rc4-git4.orig/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2008-08-27 09:49:13.000000000 -0400
+++ 2.6.27-rc4-git4/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2008-08-27 10:02:40.000000000 -0400
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@
* 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
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