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SubjectRe: [PATCH] forcedeth: make msi-x different name for rx-tx
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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.

so you systems are using ioapic routing, or msi.

and those messages are from
nv_nic_irq_optimized or nv_nic_irq
for TX or OTHER (timerirq).

YH


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