From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: make msi-x different name for rx-tx
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:54:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <498C7958.4010109@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090206171544.GA16190@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> Cool cleanups!
>>>
>>> Would you mind to also fix the following - on all my systems that have
>>> forcedeth gigabit ethernet i've been getting these bogus warnings for
>>> _years_, under moderate load:
>>>
>>> eth2: too many iterations (16) in nv_nic_irq.
>>>
>>> I think a 64 iterations limit will work much better. (i tried a limit of 50
>>> a year ago for a while and it worked fine and had no side effects - and the
>>> bogus warnings were done.)
>> you may enable CONFIG_FORCEDETH_NAPI.
>>
>> we should enable NAPI for forcedeth by default, and try to squash more bugs out.
>
> i do have that:
>
> CONFIG_FORCEDETH=y
> CONFIG_FORCEDETH_NAPI=y
>
> and the messages still come.
so you systems are using ioapic routing, or msi.
and those messages are from
nv_nic_irq_optimized or nv_nic_irq
for TX or OTHER (timerirq).
YH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-06 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-06 4:59 [PATCH] forcedeth: make msi-x different name for rx-tx Yinghai Lu
2009-02-06 5:00 ` [PATCH] forcedeth: don't clear nic_poll_irq too early Yinghai Lu
2009-02-06 9:31 ` David Miller
2009-02-06 5:01 ` [PATCH] forcedeth: disable irq at first before schedule rx Yinghai Lu
2009-02-06 9:32 ` David Miller
2009-02-06 5:01 ` [PATCH] forcedeth: ck804 and mcp55 doesn't need timerirq Yinghai Lu
2009-02-06 9:32 ` David Miller
2009-02-06 5:02 ` [PATCH] forcedeth: enable msix to default Yinghai Lu
2009-02-06 9:32 ` David Miller
2009-02-06 9:31 ` [PATCH] forcedeth: make msi-x different name for rx-tx David Miller
2009-02-06 14:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 16:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-06 17:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-06 17:54 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2009-02-09 12:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-09 19:13 ` Yinghai Lu
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