From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: RE: Low performance Intel 10GE NIC (3.2.10) on 2.6.38 Kernel Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:07:30 +0200 Message-ID: <1302253651.4409.2.camel@edumazet-laptop> References: <1302152327.2701.50.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1302153412.2701.64.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1302157012.2701.73.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1302163650.3357.8.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1302167168.3357.12.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1302176811.3357.15.camel@edumazet-laptop> <4D9DDF43.9080302@intel.com> <1302192218.3357.47.camel@edumazet-laptop> <4D9DE465.1080008@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Alexander Duyck , netdev , "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" To: Wei Gu Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:36053 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751757Ab1DHJHi (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:07:38 -0400 Received: by wya21 with SMTP id 21so2903979wya.19 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:07:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le vendredi 08 avril 2011 =C3=A0 16:59 +0800, Wei Gu a =C3=A9crit : > Hi, > On my configuration of Linux 2.6.38 we do enabled the CONFIG_DMAR > CONFIG_DMAR=3Dy > CONFIG_DMAR_DEFAULT_ON=3Dy > CONFIG_DMAR_FLOPPY_WA=3Dy > CONFIG_INTR_REMAP=3Dy >=20 > But I enabled this DMAR also by default of the RHEL6 2.6.32 kernel, > which we don't see this problem on this kernel. The only different I > can see on the config is "CONFIG_DMAR_DEFAULT_ON" > CONFIG_DMAR=3Dy > # CONFIG_DMAR_DEFAULT_ON is not set > CONFIG_DMAR_FLOPPY_WA=3Dy > CONFIG_INTR_REMAP=3Dy >=20 > I could try the same configuration as 2.6.32 for the 2.6.38 kernel by > unset the CONFIG_DMAR_DEFAULT_ON. And run the test again, hopefully w= e > can get the test result next Monday:) Just say no to CONFIG_DMAR, end of problems, no need to try various knobs and find the solution next month ;) Unless you have a reason to use it.