From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: Why the number of /proc/interrupts doesn't change when nic is under heavy workload? Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:53:28 +0100 Message-ID: <1326696808.5287.115.camel@edumazet-laptop> References: <1326665367.5287.97.camel@edumazet-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yhxu@wayne.edu To: Yuehai Xu Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Le dimanche 15 janvier 2012 =C3=A0 17:27 -0500, Yuehai Xu a =C3=A9crit = : > Thanks for replying! Please see below: > My memcached uses 8 different UDP sockets(8 different UDP ports), so > there should be no lock contention for a single UDP rx-queue. Ah, I missed this mail, so you really should post here result of "perf top -C 0", after you make sure your NIC interrupts are handled by cpu 0= =2E Also, what speed is your link, and how many UDP messages per second do you receive ?