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ixgbevf: Limit lowest interrupt rate for adaptive interrupt moderation to 12K
authorAlexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:11:15 +0000 (13:11 -0700)
committerChuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Wed, 6 Jul 2016 23:40:06 +0000 (16:40 -0700)
commit8a1b04ae83e7fc140e494f9c838da8483ae3cc8b
tree377fd9e1a295b4ef564f502ea8894a2c98fd4c9c
parentf2e85ec612ef8685896fc52da8eea3dcce2765a7
ixgbevf: Limit lowest interrupt rate for adaptive interrupt moderation to 12K

Orabug: 23177316

This patch is the ixgbevf version of commit 8ac34f10a5ea4 "ixgbe: Limit
lowest interrupt rate for adaptive interrupt moderation to 12K"

The same logic applies here as well as the same results since a netperf
test will starve for memory in the time from one Tx interrupt to the next.
As a result the ixgbevf driver underperformed when compared to vhost_net.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
Tested-by: Darin Miller <darin.j.miller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 8a9ca1104da0de6dd8551237e7d0e50eeeea4e80)
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ethtool.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.h
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c