Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: make msi-x different name for rx-tx
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Feb 06 2009 - 12:16:29 EST
* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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