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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@gentoo.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] via-rhine: Fix hanging with high CPU load on low-end broads.
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:17:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111228101710.51c4893f@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACPM=kX2hcGt3XXDJkCAcOjv=5oqSHChhhphUAyRhR_PsNFEEQ@mail.gmail.com>

Looks like the hardware isn't really disabling interrupts correctly to support
NAPI. NAPI is supposed to be friendly and under load the work should move to
ksoftirqd. I suspect the IRQ management in this driver is borked.
There is some stupid spin loops in the IRQ handler that happen when looking for
Tx IRQ. I would run with debug set  and see if this is triggering.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-28 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-28 12:28 [PATCH 1/1] via-rhine: Fix hanging with high CPU load on low-end broads Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-28 14:37 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-28 15:14   ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-28 17:13     ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-28 17:30       ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-28 18:17         ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-12-28 18:34           ` David Miller
2011-12-28 19:16             ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-29 15:39               ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-29 18:39                 ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-29 22:00                   ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-29 22:05                   ` David Miller
2011-12-29 23:19                     ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-29 23:37                       ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-29 23:48                         ` David Miller
2011-12-30  1:18                           ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-29 23:53                         ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-30  1:21                           ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-30 11:48                           ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-30 12:56                             ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-30 13:51                               ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-30 18:03                                 ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-30 18:45                                   ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-30 20:38                                   ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-30 21:50                                     ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-30 22:08                                       ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-30 22:08                                         ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-30 22:13                                       ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-30 22:19                                         ` Francois Romieu
2011-12-30 22:41                                           ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-31  1:37                                             ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2011-12-31 12:17                                               ` Francois Romieu
2012-01-01 12:09                                                 ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2012-01-01 21:15                                                 ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2012-01-03 19:20                                                 ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2012-01-03 22:32                                                   ` Francois Romieu
2012-01-04  7:59                                                     ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2012-01-05 12:01                                                       ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2012-01-05 16:20                                                         ` Francois Romieu
2012-01-05 16:46                                                           ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2012-01-05 17:12                                                         ` David Miller

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