RE: [Pv-drivers] rps and pvdrivers

Bhavesh Davda
2010-09-03T21:05:37Z

Hi Chetan,

I presume you're talking about the vmxnet3 vNIC here? What version of the VMware hypervisor are you observing this with? Could you share the vmware.log (and potentially the vmkernel log) file from the VM where you're seeing this?

Thanks.

- Bhavesh

Bhavesh P. Davda

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pv-drivers-bounces@vmware.com [mailto:pv-drivers-
> bounces@vmware.com] On Behalf Of Chetan Loke
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 12:49 PM
> To: netdev@vger.kernel.org; pv-drivers@vmware.com; therbert@google.com
> Subject: [Pv-drivers] rps and pvdrivers
>
> Hello,
>
> I just tried kernel-2.6.35-0.57.rc6.git1.fc14.x86_64.rpm because
> ksoftirqd was consuming 100% cpu under high packet load(on a 10G
> vNIC). Now with the above combo the vNIC on the monitoring interface
> virtually receives 'zero' interrupts.
> Do I have to configure anything manually? Things work fine with 2.6.33
> and I can capture 250K+ packets but I can't use it on a 10G NIC. I'm
> going to try the stock 2.6.35.4 to see if I get the same results.
>
> Is anyone else seeing similar issues?
>
>
> Chetan Loke
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