* High interrupt rate on tg3 driver
@ 2003-11-05 20:41 Steve Modica
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From: Steve Modica @ 2003-11-05 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi All,
It turns out that there's a hardware bug that can cause a missed interrupt with
the 570X chipset. So the tg3 driver will poke the card every 10msec to make
sure we don't miss one. Each of these pokes generates an interrupt.
However this still doesn't explain the high interrupt rate I'm seeing. I'm
seeing about 22k/sec when moving 500kBytes/sec of data.
I've got 5 cards ports on the system, so I can account for 500/sec, and I could
even see each NAPI interrupt/poll cycle generating a few hundred a sec, but
22000 seems like way too many.
Can anyone think of a real good way to capture this? Profiling just shows me
spending a lot of time in tg3_poll, do_csum and memcpy.
Steve
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