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    forcdeth: increase max_interrupt_work · dccd547e
    Joe Korty authored
    
    
    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: default avatarJoe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
    Cc: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
    Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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