forcdeth: increase max_interrupt_work
This eliminates the following often-generated warning from my 64 bit
Opteron SMP test stand:
eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq
According to the web, the problem is that the forcedeth driver has a
too-low value for max_interrupt_work. Grepping the kernel I see that
forcedeth has the second lowest value of all ethernet drivers (ie, 6).
Most are in the 20-40 range. So this patch increases this a bit, from 6
to 15 (at 15 forcedeth becomes the driver with third-lowest
max_interrupt_work value).
My test stand, which used to print out the above warnings repetitively
whenever it was under heavy net load, no longer does so.
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
index 74c588e..0b12e48 100644
--- a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@
* Maximum number of loops until we assume that a bit in the irq mask
* is stuck. Overridable with module param.
*/
-static int max_interrupt_work = 5;
+static int max_interrupt_work = 15;
/*
* Optimization can be either throuput mode or cpu mode