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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Low performance Intel 10GE NIC (3.2.10) on 2.6.38 Kernel
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:56:41 +0200
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Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
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Le mardi 12 avril 2011 =C3=A0 12:40 +0800, Wei Gu a =C3=A9crit :
> Hi,
> I found the problem was introduced by this revert patch "2010-08-13
> Peter Zijlstra  sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now"
>=20
> I tried the remove this patch from 2.6.35.2 and then build the
> application again, then the ixgbe driver looks works fine.
> I don't know why this time revert the  nohz_ratelimit() will cause th=
e
> problem on ixgbe driver, since this  nohz_ratelimit was first
> introduced "2010-03-11". And before that time with 2.6.32 kernel it
> also doesn't have this problem with ixgbe driver.
>=20
>=20
> Some log from git:
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> 2.6.35.2
> 2010-08-13      Peter Zijlstra  sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for no=
w
> 2.6.35.1
> 2010-08-01      Linus Torvalds  Linux 2.6.35 v2.6.35
> 2010-06-17      Peter Zijlstra  nohz: Fix nohz ratelimit
> 2.6.35-rc3
> 2010-03-11      Mike Galbraith  sched: Rate-limit nohz
>=20
> Thanks
> WeiGu
>=20

Hmm...

Could you try to add "processor.max_cstate=3D1" to boot parameters ?