3c574TX: Too much work in interrupt

Donald Becker becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov
Sun Aug 2 23:25:03 1998


On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Paul LeMahieu wrote:

> I tried fiddling with the max_interrupt_work parameter in the 3c574_cs.c
> code, reducing it from 10 to 5 to 2.  In fact, the log results
> above are from a module where I had set max_interrupt_work = 2.

You should set the value *higher*.  If you aren't concerned about real-time
performance for other devices, set it to 20 or 50.

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