Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:54:32 -0800 | From | Yinghai Lu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: make msi-x different name for rx-tx |
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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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