netdev - Re: [PATCH 2.6.30-rc4] r8169: avoid losing MSI interrupts

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Date:	Sat, 23 May 2009 18:53:28 +0200
From:	Michael Riepe <michael.riepe@...glemail.com>
To:	David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>
CC:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	Rui Santos <rsantos@...popie.com>,
	Michael Büker <m.bueker@...lin.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.30-rc4] r8169: avoid losing MSI interrupts



David Dillow wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 18:12 +0200, Michael Riepe wrote:
> 
>>If I use two connections (iperf -P2) and nail iperf to both threads of a
>>single core with taskset (the program is multi-threaded, just in case
>>you wonder), I get this:
>>
>>CPU 0+2:  0.0-60.0 sec  4.65 GBytes    665 Mbits/sec
>>CPU 1+3:  0.0-60.0 sec  6.43 GBytes    920 Mbits/sec
>>
>>That's quite a difference, isn't it?
>>
>>Now I wonder what CPU 0 is doing...
> 
> 
> Where does /proc/interrupts say the irqs are going?

Oh well...

           CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
  0:         66          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:          2          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  7:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge
parport0
  8:          1          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
  9:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
 12:          4          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
 14:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge
ata_piix
 15:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge
ata_piix
 16:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi
uhci_hcd:usb4
 18:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi
uhci_hcd:usb3
 19:       9696          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi
ata_piix, uhci_hcd:usb2
 22:        471          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   HDA
Intel
 23:        100          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi
uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb5
 27:   48463995          0          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
NMI:          0          0          0          0   Non-maskable interrupts
LOC:     460965     294620     324902     358771   Local timer interrupts
RES:      30111     286150     113295     268387   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:       1140       1143         52         34   Function call interrupts
TLB:       2223        952       1184       2573   TLB shootdowns
SPU:          0          0          0          0   Spurious interrupts
ERR:          0
MIS:          0


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Michael "Tired" Riepe <michael.riepe@...glemail.com>
X-Tired: Each morning I get up I die a little
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