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[PATCH 2/4] pch_gbe: fix transmit watchdog timeout

From: Andy Cress <hidden>
Date: 2012-07-09 13:35:04

Author: Andy Cress [off-list ref]

An extended ping and iperf test with 6 vlans resulted in transmit
timeout stats 
and sometimes a driver oops with a netdev watchdog transmit timeout.
Fix WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT to be more like e1000e at 5 * HZ, to avoid 
unnecessary transmit timeouts.

Signed-off-by: Andy Cress <redacted>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c
index 4c04843..a746064 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ const char pch_driver_version[] = DRV_VERSION;
 #define DSC_INIT16			0xC000
 #define PCH_GBE_DMA_ALIGN		0
 #define PCH_GBE_DMA_PADDING		2
-#define PCH_GBE_WATCHDOG_PERIOD		(1 * HZ)	/*
watchdog time */
+#define PCH_GBE_WATCHDOG_PERIOD		(5 * HZ)	/*
watchdog time */
 #define PCH_GBE_COPYBREAK_DEFAULT	256
 #define PCH_GBE_PCI_BAR			1
 #define PCH_GBE_RESERVE_MEMORY		0x200000	/* 2MB */
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