From: Mark Jackson <mpfj-list@mimc.co.uk>
To: "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Excessive ethernet interrupts on AM335x board
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:54:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <513F4FCE.5090109@mimc.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <513F4B58.1000204@mimc.co.uk>
On 12/03/13 15:35, Mark Jackson wrote:
> I'm just fighting an issue with ethernet on our custom AM335x board:-
>
> # uname -a
> Linux nanobone 3.9.0-rc2-00113-gd60f039 #139 Tue Mar 12 15:14:01 GMT 2013 armv7l GNU/Linux
>
> Every now and then, the whole unit slows to a crawl. The only indication of any problem is:-
>
> (a) the serial tty port becomes much less responsive
> (b) normal ping times jump from 1ms to >10sec (sometimes >20sec !!)
> (c) the ethernet interrupt count rockets (see below)
>
> I've tried to force the problem by flood pinging from my PC.
>
> # while true
>> do grep "58:" /proc/interrupts; sleep 10
>> done
> 58: 1291 INTC 4a100000.ethernet <<< normal pinging (about 100 irqs per 10sec)
> 58: 1333 INTC 4a100000.ethernet
> 58: 1372 INTC 4a100000.ethernet
> 58: 3979 INTC 4a100000.ethernet <<< start flood ping (about 4k irqs per 10sec)
> 58: 6540 INTC 4a100000.ethernet
> 58: 17519 INTC 4a100000.ethernet <<< big jump >>>
> 58: 20169 INTC 4a100000.ethernet
> 58: 22775 INTC 4a100000.ethernet
> 58: 25368 INTC 4a100000.ethernet
> 58: 34598 INTC 4a100000.ethernet <<< big jump >>>
> 58: 37182 INTC 4a100000.ethernet
> 58: 39730 INTC 4a100000.ethernet
> 58: 141220 INTC 4a100000.ethernet <<< whoa !!! >>>
> 58: 146080 INTC 4a100000.ethernet
Doing the flood ping test on an old Beaglebone (running kernel 3.2.34 on an sdcard), I get:-
# while true
> do grep "94:" /proc/interrupts; sleep 10
ne
> done
94: 281353 INTC cpsw.0
94: 370782 INTC cpsw.0
94: 457537 INTC cpsw.0
94: 544876 INTC cpsw.0
94: 631795 INTC cpsw.0
94: 717747 INTC cpsw.0
94: 805974 INTC cpsw.0
94: 892961 INTC cpsw.0
94: 981490 INTC cpsw.0
94: 1070627 INTC cpsw.0
94: 1153086 INTC cpsw.0
94: 1242060 INTC cpsw.0
94: 1327734 INTC cpsw.0
94: 1413705 INTC cpsw.0
94: 1504494 INTC cpsw.0
94: 1591395 INTC cpsw.0
94: 1676769 INTC cpsw.0
So these are going up by 90k irqs per 10sec ... meaning that the AM335x
board seems to be *dropping* most of its ethernet irqs.
I'll try to get 3.9.0-rc2 on the BB and retest.
Mark J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-12 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-12 15:35 Excessive ethernet interrupts on AM335x board Mark Jackson
2013-03-12 15:54 ` Mark Jackson [this message]
2013-03-13 8:44 ` Koen Kooi
2013-03-13 10:11 ` Mark Jackson
2013-03-13 10:32 ` Daniel Mack
2013-03-13 10:36 ` Mark Jackson
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=513F4FCE.5090109@mimc.co.uk \
--to=mpfj-list@mimc.co.uk \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-omap@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox