From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Xiaoliang \(David\) Wei" Subject: Re: How can we bound one CPU to one Gigabit NIC? Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:12:51 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <003401c26e35$890d56b0$f5f2010a@weixl> References: <03ab01c26e2d$06adeac0$f5f2010a@weixl> <3DA1D15C.1070309@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Return-path: To: "Ben Greear" Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Thanks Ben. We are going to use SysKonnect Cards. Are they tg3 based, too? Thank you. Xiaoliang (David) Wei Graduate Student in CS@Caltech http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~weixl ==================================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Greear" To: "Xiaoliang (David) Wei" Cc: Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 11:24 AM Subject: Re: How can we bound one CPU to one Gigabit NIC? > Xiaoliang (David) Wei wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I am now doing some experiments on Dual CPU (2.4Ghz) with 2 Gigabit > > cards. Can anyone tell me how to bound one CPU to each NIC so that we don't > > need to care about the packet-reordering and the interrupt sharing problems? > > Thank you very much.:) > > My experiments show you will still get re-ordered packets occasionally > (but then again, I'm having other wierd problems, so maybe you wont). > > # Bind processor 2 (1<<1) to irq 11 > echo 2 > /proc/irq/11/smp_affinity > > # Bind processor 1 (1<<0) to irq 19 > echo 1 > /proc/irq/9/smp_affinity > > > I will be interested to hear of your results, as I have been having > heating problems with e1000 and other problems with tg3 based nics! > > Ben > > > > > > > > > Xiaoliang (David) Wei Graduate Student in CS@Caltech > > http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~weixl > > ==================================================== > > > > > -- > Ben Greear > President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear > > > >