From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757932AbZBFQ7P (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:59:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753016AbZBFQ6z (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:58:55 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:40215 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751878AbZBFQ6y (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:58:54 -0500 Message-ID: <498C6C15.3050807@kernel.org> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:57:57 -0800 From: Yinghai Lu User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , Ayaz Abdulla , "David S. Miller" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , NetDev Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: make msi-x different name for rx-tx References: <498BC3A8.9040203@kernel.org> <20090206144948.GD18368@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090206144948.GD18368@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. YH