netdev - [PATCH 09/12] net-next: mediatek: increase watchdog

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Date:	Thu,  5 May 2016 11:26:22 +0200
From:	John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	nbd@....name, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Subject: [PATCH 09/12] net-next: mediatek: increase watchdog_timeo

During stress testing, after reducing the threshold value, we have seen
TX timeouts that were caused by the watchdog_timeo value being too low.
Increase the value to 5 * HZ which is a value commonly used by many other
drivers.

Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
index 4439991..12e9f1a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
@@ -1704,7 +1704,7 @@ static int mtk_add_mac(struct mtk_eth *eth, struct device_node *np)
 	mac->hw_stats->reg_offset = id * MTK_STAT_OFFSET;
 
 	SET_NETDEV_DEV(eth->netdev[id], eth->dev);
-	eth->netdev[id]->watchdog_timeo = HZ;
+	eth->netdev[id]->watchdog_timeo = 5 * HZ;
 	eth->netdev[id]->netdev_ops = &mtk_netdev_ops;
 	eth->netdev[id]->base_addr = (unsigned long)eth->base;
 	eth->netdev[id]->vlan_features = MTK_HW_FEATURES &
-- 
1.7.10.4