From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 08:19:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614FB106564A for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:19:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07FBF8FC1D for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:19:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.36]) by QMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id eYH31a00B0mv7h052YKLoF; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:19:20 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id eYKc1a0062P6wsM3XYKcHn; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:19:37 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=nlX-cntIBRQA:10 a=z-gTsQe774kA:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=iLG4jCQ8vDJgY5MNXbQA:9 a=ZqKsnU7jZrpszV8LU_49QTTQ9mAA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5467B5C19; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:19:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:19:36 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Won De Erick Message-ID: <20081113081936.GA14779@icarus.home.lan> References: <704830.24415.qm@web45815.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <20081113072610.GA13698@icarus.home.lan> <576266.41435.qm@web45812.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <20081113074602.GB13938@icarus.home.lan> <366483.43588.qm@web45807.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <366483.43588.qm@web45807.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IRQ31 and IRQ32 on HPDL585 running FreeBSD 7.0 are consuming HIGH CPU usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:19:38 -0000 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:07:37AM -0800, Won De Erick wrote: > Noted on this, I will update you through this thread. > > However is there any possibility of the following: > > > I don't know if there's a way to split the interrupt request for each bce's Rx and Tx, > > which means a total of four IRQs, and eventually four cores (or 4 CPUs) > > for the transactions. With this way, the IDLE processors would be utilized. > > What I mean here is, for the two interfaces: > > one IRQ for bce0 Rx > one IRQ for bce0 Tx > one IRQ for bce1 Rx > one IRQ for bce1 Tx I can't even begin to imagine how this would be possible on any NIC. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |