From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Sundstrom Subject: Re: ~60k interrupts/sec for 1Gb/s iperf with r8169 Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:43:09 +0100 Message-ID: <4B54737D.20306@zappa.cx> References: <4B5447E3.5090405@zappa.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from alva.zappa.cx ([213.88.132.89]:35542 "EHLO alva.zappa.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753122Ab0AROnN (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:43:13 -0500 Received: from matrix.zappa.cx ([2001:16d8:ff9b:2:211:9ff:fe8a:f658]) by alva.zappa.cx with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NWsox-0006hR-U7 for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:43:12 +0100 Received: from [10.8.0.6] (openvpn6.zappa.cx [10.8.0.6] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by matrix.zappa.cx (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id o0IEhA1B026414 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:43:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4B5447E3.5090405@zappa.cx> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Andreas Sundstrom wrote: > Here is the relevant dmesg output for my NIC. It's an integrated > NIC on my ASUS M2A-VM HDMI mb. > > r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded > r8169 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 > r8169 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > r8169 0000:02:00.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X > eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc90010944000, 00:1f:c6:b3:ff:eb, XID 18000000 IRQ 26 > r8169: eth0: chipset (mac_version = 12). > > I added the output of the mac_version when I was troubleshooting. I realized that I didn't say what kernel I was using. But this was all with plain 2.6.32.3 kernel /Andreas Sundstrom