From: Chris Newton <newton@unb.ca>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: excessive interrupts on network cards
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:32:41 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BB12DBC@webmail1> (raw)
Even once I get this current problem worked out, I'd be interested in testing
something along these lines. I'm working to build a nice, fast network
monitor, and so, the performance of the box under high traffic load is very
important.
Are these changes totally related to the card you are using, or can they be
applied more generally to other cards?
Chris
>===== Original Message From Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com> =====
>On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:38:31PM -0300, Chris Newton wrote:
>> Yea, it is a single port card... I had meant to mention that in the email I
>> sent out... ie: that it wasn't reporting correctly... but, I didnt really
>> think it was related, since the eepro was doing the same thing.
>>
>> As for comparing with ifconfig, I ran 'watch 1 ifconfig -a', and sure
>> enough, I have about ~7000-7500 packets coming in right now. And, the
>> 'procinfo -D', reports ~21000-22000 interrupts per second.
>
>This is heavily dependant on the interrupt mitigation features that a card
>has. At least for the ns83820 driver, I'm testing a technique where the
>driver essentially switches to polled mode once the interrupt load goes
>above a certain threshold, thereby limiting the load to ~2500 irq/sec.
>Combined with carefully placed data prefetching, I'm seeing a huge increase
>in performance. Of course, this comes at the expense of latency.
>
> -ben
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2001-09-25 22:32 Chris Newton [this message]
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2001-09-25 21:38 excessive interrupts on network cards Chris Newton
2001-09-25 21:42 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-25 19:20 Chris Newton
2001-09-25 20:01 ` Andrew Morton
2001-09-25 20:36 ` Tim Moore
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