ixgbe: Fix RSC completion delay causing Rx interrupts to stop

When a user disables interrupt throttling with ethtool on 82599 devices,
the interrupt timer may not be re-enabled if hardware RSC is running.  The
RSC completions in hardware don't complete before the next ITR event tries
to fire, so the ITR timer never gets re-armed.  This patch increases the
amount of time between interrupts when throttling is disabled (rx-usecs =
0) when the hardware RSC deature is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.h b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
index 1b12c7ba275f..e11d83d5852b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@
 #define IXGBE_TX_FLAGS_VLAN_PRIO_MASK   0x0000e000
 #define IXGBE_TX_FLAGS_VLAN_SHIFT       16
 
+#define IXGBE_MAX_RSC_INT_RATE          162760
+
 /* wrapper around a pointer to a socket buffer,
  * so a DMA handle can be stored along with the buffer */
 struct ixgbe_tx_buffer {