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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/ethtool.c29
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/ethtool.c
index 8ce67064b9c..90eef07943f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/ethtool.c
@@ -357,21 +357,28 @@ static int igbvf_set_coalesce(struct net_device *netdev,
struct igbvf_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
struct e1000_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
- if ((ec->rx_coalesce_usecs > IGBVF_MAX_ITR_USECS) ||
- ((ec->rx_coalesce_usecs > 3) &&
- (ec->rx_coalesce_usecs < IGBVF_MIN_ITR_USECS)) ||
- (ec->rx_coalesce_usecs == 2))
- return -EINVAL;
-
- /* convert to rate of irq's per second */
- if (ec->rx_coalesce_usecs && ec->rx_coalesce_usecs <= 3) {
+ if ((ec->rx_coalesce_usecs >= IGBVF_MIN_ITR_USECS) &&
+ (ec->rx_coalesce_usecs <= IGBVF_MAX_ITR_USECS)) {
+ adapter->current_itr = ec->rx_coalesce_usecs << 2;
+ adapter->requested_itr = 1000000000 /
+ (adapter->current_itr * 256);
+ } else if ((ec->rx_coalesce_usecs == 3) ||
+ (ec->rx_coalesce_usecs == 2)) {
adapter->current_itr = IGBVF_START_ITR;
adapter->requested_itr = ec->rx_coalesce_usecs;
- } else {
- adapter->current_itr = ec->rx_coalesce_usecs << 2;
+ } else if (ec->rx_coalesce_usecs == 0) {
+ /*
+ * The user's desire is to turn off interrupt throttling
+ * altogether, but due to HW limitations, we can't do that.
+ * Instead we set a very small value in EITR, which would
+ * allow ~967k interrupts per second, but allow the adapter's
+ * internal clocking to still function properly.
+ */
+ adapter->current_itr = 4;
adapter->requested_itr = 1000000000 /
(adapter->current_itr * 256);
- }
+ } else
+ return -EINVAL;
writel(adapter->current_itr,
hw->hw_addr + adapter->rx_ring->itr_register);