From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 2/2] igbvf: avoid reset storms due to mailbox issues Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:58:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20091211.225829.246514090.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20091212034033.10674.67054.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20091212034115.10674.14928.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:42113 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756041AbZLLG6X (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:58:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091212034115.10674.14928.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:41:16 -0800 > From: Alexander Duyck > > This change makes it so that reset/interrupt storms can be avoided when > there are mailbox issues. The new behavior is to only allow the device to > trigger mailbox related resets only once every 10 seconds. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied.