netdev - Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] ixgbe: fix issues setting rx-usecs with legacy interrupts

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Message-Id: <20090813.163326.143691783.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:33:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, donald.skidmore@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] ixgbe: fix issues setting rx-usecs with legacy
 interrupts

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:18:14 -0700

> From: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>
> 
> Currently setting rx-usecs when the interface is in legacy interrupt
> mode it is not immediate.  We were only setting EITR for each MSIx
> vector and since this count would be zero for legacy mode it wasn't
> set until after a reset.  This patch corrects that by checking what
> mode we are in and then setting EITR accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.skidmore@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied to net-2.6
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