ixgbe: initialize interrupt throttle rate

This commit dropped the setting of the default interrupt throttle rate.

commit 021230d40ae0e6508d6c717b6e0d6d81cd77ac25
Author: Ayyappan Veeraiyan <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Mar 3 15:03:45 2008 -0800

    ixgbe: Introduce MSI-X queue vector code

The following patch adds it back.  Without this the default value of 0
causes the performance of this card to be awful.  Restoring these to the
default values yields much better performance.

This regression has been around since 2.6.25.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected] [2.6.25 and later]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 53f41b649f03638dccbb40a3180b8d8e35e773ca..a417be7f8be5d0584a4371e240c4116ead185591 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -2303,6 +2303,12 @@ static int __devinit ixgbe_set_interrupt_capability(struct ixgbe_adapter
        int err = 0;
        int vector, v_budget;
 
+       /*
+        * Set the default interrupt throttle rate.
+        */
+       adapter->rx_eitr = (1000000 / IXGBE_DEFAULT_ITR_RX_USECS);
+       adapter->tx_eitr = (1000000 / IXGBE_DEFAULT_ITR_TX_USECS);
+
        /*
         * It's easy to be greedy for MSI-X vectors, but it really
         * doesn't do us much good if we have a lot more vectors