Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-24 Thread Massimo Lusetti
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 21:52 -0700, Scott Long wrote: [..] > and if we don't EOI then we can't get any other interrupts. This scheme > works fairly well for typical PC hardware, and these Intel chipsets seem > to be the exception, albeit a popular one. One solution that is being [..] Yep, the wi

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
:You're seeing the same aliasing. Here's exactly what happens: :irq64 generates an interrupt and the APIC routes it to the CPU. :FreeBSD services the interrupt, masks irq64 in the APIC, and schedules :the interrupt thread for em2. When that ithread runs, the driver :will take action to turn off

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Julian Elischer
Michael Vince wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: This is Intels latest server chipset designs and Dell are putting that chipset in all their servers. Luckily I haven't not seen the problem on any of my Dell servers (as long as I am looking at this right). I just tried intel's latest em driver

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Scott Long
Michael Vince wrote: Scott Long wrote: Michael Vince wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:54:49PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: On 23-Nov-2005 Kris Kennaway wrote: I am seeing the em driver undergoing an interrupt storm whenever the amr driver receives interrupts. I

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Vince
Scott Long wrote: Michael Vince wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:54:49PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: On 23-Nov-2005 Kris Kennaway wrote: I am seeing the em driver undergoing an interrupt storm whenever the amr driver receives interrupts. In this case I was runni

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Scott Long
Mihail Balikov wrote: try to enable kern.polling sysctl -w kern.polling.enable=1 Polling solves specific problems, but isn't a good choice for every situation. Scott ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:40:24PM +1100, Michael Vince wrote: > chipset in all their servers. > Luckily I haven't not seen the problem on any of my Dell servers (as > long as I am looking at this right). > > This server has been running for a long time. > vmstat -i > interrupt

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Scott Long
Michael Vince wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:54:49PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: On 23-Nov-2005 Kris Kennaway wrote: I am seeing the em driver undergoing an interrupt storm whenever the amr driver receives interrupts. In this case I was running newfs on the amr

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Vince
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:54:49PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: On 23-Nov-2005 Kris Kennaway wrote: I am seeing the em driver undergoing an interrupt storm whenever the amr driver receives interrupts. In this case I was running newfs on the amr array and em0 was not

Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Mihail Balikov
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Re: em interrupt storm

2005-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:54:49PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > > On 23-Nov-2005 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > I am seeing the em driver undergoing an interrupt storm whenever the > > amr driver receives interrupts. In this case I was running newfs on > > the amr array and em0 was not in use: > > > >

RE: em interrupt storm

2005-11-22 Thread John Polstra
On 23-Nov-2005 Kris Kennaway wrote: > I am seeing the em driver undergoing an interrupt storm whenever the > amr driver receives interrupts. In this case I was running newfs on > the amr array and em0 was not in use: > >28 root1 -68 -187 0K 8K CPU1 1 0:32 53.98% irq16: em