Re: [High Interrupt Count] Networking Difficulties

2011-11-01 Thread YongHyeon PYUN
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 12:16:37AM -0500, Paul A. Procacci wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 08:57:46PM -0500, Paul A. Procacci wrote: > > Gents, > > > > I'm having quite an aweful problem that I need a bit of help with. > > > > I have an HPDL360 G3 ( > > http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspe

Re: [High Interrupt Count] Networking Difficulties

2011-11-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, I'd suggest starting to dig for datasheets or alternative open source drivers (eg Linux) that exposes what the NIC can do with interrupts (eg interrupt coalescing.) I'd also suggest using hwpmc and doing a spot of profiling to find out where your CPU is being spent. Anything else is conjectu

Re: [High Interrupt Count] Networking Difficulties

2011-10-31 Thread Paul A. Procacci
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 08:57:46PM -0500, Paul A. Procacci wrote: > Gents, > > I'm having quite an aweful problem that I need a bit of help with. > > I have an HPDL360 G3 ( > http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11504_na/11504_na.HTML ) which > acts as a NAT (via PF) for several (600+) c