netdev - Re: e1000 softirq load balancing

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Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:55:40 -0500
From:	Donald Porter <porterde@...utexas.edu>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-net@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e1000 softirq load balancing

Ok.  That seems very reasonable.

So the behavior I am seeing is that I have 4 NICs, but all of the  
traffic is being funneled to 1-2 softirq handlers, despite the fact  
that the hardware interrupts are being delivered to 4 different CPUs.

Any tips on how to debug this?  Or perhaps there is some configuration  
step I am missing?

Thanks,
Don

On Oct 14, 2008, at 6:51 PM, David Miller wrote:

> From: Don Porter <porterde@...utexas.edu>
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:46:11 -0500
>
>> Would you mind giving me a bit of intuition why I can't have a 1:1
>> mapping of CPUs to NICs?
>
> I didn't say that.
>
> I said that without HW flow seperation support, you can only
> expect N cpus to be busy where N is the number of NICs you
> have.

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