From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753561AbXJGJDg (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 05:03:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752147AbXJGJD0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 05:03:26 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:51522 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752130AbXJGJDZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2007 05:03:25 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:03:13 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Jeff Garzik Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ayaz Abdulla , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] forcedeth: interrupt handling cleanup Message-ID: <20071007090313.GA733@elte.hu> References: <20071006151250.GA17020@havoc.gtf.org> <20071006151400.GB17488@havoc.gtf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071006151400.GB17488@havoc.gtf.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.1.7-deb -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Jeff Garzik wrote: > - spin_unlock(&np->lock); > - printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: too many iterations (%d) in nv_nic_irq.\n", dev->name, i); > - break; i like that! One forcedeth annoyance that triggers frequently on one of my testboxes is: [ 120.955202] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. [ 121.233865] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. [ 129.215450] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. [ 139.734408] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. [ 144.546811] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. [ 153.811005] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. [ 154.695879] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. [ 155.455078] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. [ 173.912162] eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. Ingo