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From: P@draigBrady•com
To: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data•slu.se>
Cc: Chris Carpinello <chriscarpinello@hotmail•com>, netdev@oss•sgi.com
Subject: Re: e1000 w/ NAPI + SMP = 99% CPU utilization
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:01:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C6D1CE.9050202@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16582.49526.374109.580312@robur.slu.se>

Robert Olsson wrote:
> Chris Carpinello writes:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Is seems like your network load @ ~202 Mbps gets you system into 
> continuing polling as we see very few interrupts on your eth3.
> This means that rx_softirq reschedules itself do_softirq() kicks
> ksoftird to prevent the rx_softirq from monopolize the system.
> So now all the work gets accounted in ksoftird  And by design 
> ->poll is strictly serialized per device to guarantee ordering and 
> avoid cache bouncing we only see one ksoftirq used as use only have 
> one input device.
> 
> Pádraig suggest binding to separate CPU's. This is normally a good 
> thing but as you only have one input device it will not help.

agreed. All traffic is on eth3 so you can't share it over CPUs

> And didn't we just see a fix for ifconfig down oops?

yep, seems like it:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=108631346103966&w=2

Pádraig.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-09  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-08 18:14 e1000 w/ NAPI + SMP = 99% CPU utilization Chris Carpinello
2004-06-09  7:51 ` Robert Olsson
2004-06-09  9:01   ` P [this message]
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2004-06-07 19:08 Chris Carpinello
2004-06-08 12:34 ` P

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