On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Qiang Liu [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Qiang Liu <redacted>

Reduce interrupt singnals through reset Interrupt Coalescing Control Reg.
Increase the threshold value of interrupt and timer will reduce the number
of complete interrupt sharply. Improve the system performance effectively.

There is always a trade off of throughput and latency by using
interrupt coalescing.  It's not reasonable to assume that the
throughput is the only factor to be considered and set the coalescing
threshold and timeout to the max value by default.  Have you carried
out other benchmark like copying many small files?

It will be safer to make the coalescing runtime configurable like the
sata_mv driver, IMO.

- Leo