Re: [patch 5/7] forcdeth: increase max_interrupt_work

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
> 
> 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@ccur.com>
> Cc: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/net/forcedeth.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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