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From: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@ravellosystems.com>
To: Sameeh Jubran <sameeh@daynix.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry@daynix.com>,
	Yan Vugenfirer <yan@daynix.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] e1000: Fixing interrupts pace.
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 13:55:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160516135548.7548d55b@pixies> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKPgXcEa18DhRfqo0BHR0ZVn_aFfCxgrg5VjsCLiSSGkgf8=Tg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 16 May 2016 08:58:32 +0300, sameeh@daynix.com wrote:
> This means that on a real hardware when mit_delay==0 ( don't use the timer
> ) the Ethernet controller guarantees a maximum
> observable interrupt rate of 7813 interrupts/sec. Unfortunately that isn't
> the case in the emulated device and the interrupt
> rate bypass the rate of the real hardware which could lead to an interrupt
> storm. Setting mit_delay to 500 guarantees a maximum
> interrupt rate of 7813 interrupts/sec.

OK, if that is the case, then

> > > +            mit_delay = (mit_delay < 500) ? 500 : mit_delay;
> > > +
> > >              if (mit_delay) {
> > >                  s->mit_timer_on = 1;
> > >                  timer_mod(s->mit_timer,

The existing 'if (mit_delay)' is now superflous, since always true,
hence can be removed.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-16 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-17  7:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] e1000: Introducing an upper bound of interrupts Sameeh Jubran
2016-03-17  7:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] e1000: Fixing interrupts pace Sameeh Jubran
2016-05-04 11:34   ` Shmulik Ladkani
2016-05-16  5:58     ` Sameeh Jubran
2016-05-16 10:55       ` Shmulik Ladkani [this message]
2016-05-17 18:26         ` Sameeh Jubran
2016-03-17  7:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Revert "e1000: fix hang of win2k12 shutdown with flood ping" Sameeh Jubran
2016-03-17 19:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] e1000: Introducing an upper bound of interrupts Denis V. Lunev
2016-03-18  1:34 ` Jason Wang
2016-03-21  8:25   ` Sameeh Jubran
2016-03-22 11:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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