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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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, 6 Feb 2009 18:15:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090206171544.GA16190@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <498C6C15.3050807@kernel.org>


* 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.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-06 17:16 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 [this message]
2009-02-06 17:54       ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-09 12:00         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-09 19:13           ` Yinghai Lu

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