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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Jean-Michel Hautbois <jhautbois@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Difficulties to get 1Gbps on be2net ethernet card
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 11:56:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338371774.2760.134.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL8zT=gJT1Frn_44SU0CrpZjPxwC_VuHFE4k9jvOGNmFomzhHA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 11:40 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote:

> I used vmstat in order to see the differences between the two kernels.
> The main difference is the number of interrupts per second.
> I have an average of 87500 on 3.2 and 7500 on 2.6, 10 times lower !
> I suspect the be2net driver to be the main cause, and I checkes the
> /proc/interrupts file in order to be sure.
> 
> I have for eth1-tx on 2.6.26 about 2200 interrupts per second and 23000 on 3.2.
> BTW, it is named eth1-q0 on 3.2 (and tx and rx are the same IRQ)
> whereas there is eth1-rx0 and eth1-tx on 2.6.26.
> 

Might be different coalescing params :

ethtool -c eth1

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-30  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-29 14:46 Difficulties to get 1Gbps on be2net ethernet card Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-05-30  6:28 ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-05-30  6:48   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-30  6:51     ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-05-30  7:06       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-30  7:25         ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-05-30  9:40           ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-05-30  9:56             ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-05-30 10:06               ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-05-30 10:04             ` Sathya.Perla
2012-05-30 10:07               ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-06-06 10:04                 ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-06-06 11:01                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-06 12:34                     ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-06-06 13:07                       ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-06-06 14:36                         ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-06-07 12:27                           ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-06-07 12:31                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-07 12:54                               ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-06-08  6:08                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-08  8:14                                   ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-06-08  8:22                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-08 14:53                                       ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-06-12  8:24                                         ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-06-12  8:55                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-12  9:01                                             ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-06-12  9:06                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-12  9:10                                                 ` Jean-Michel Hautbois
2012-05-30 10:30               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-30 11:10                 ` Sathya.Perla
2012-05-31  6:54               ` Jean-Michel Hautbois

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