IRQ31 and IRQ32 on HPDL585 running FreeBSD 7.0 are consuming HIGH CPU usage

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 13 00:19:38 PST 2008


On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:07:37AM -0800, Won De Erick wrote:
> Noted on this, I will update you through this thread.
> 
> However is there any possibility of the following:
> 
> > I don't know if there's a way to split the interrupt request for each bce's Rx and Tx,
> > which means a total of four IRQs, and eventually four cores (or 4 CPUs)
> > for the transactions. With this way, the IDLE processors would be utilized.
> 
> What I mean here is, for the two interfaces:
> 
> one IRQ for bce0 Rx
> one IRQ for bce0 Tx
> one IRQ for bce1 Rx
> one IRQ for bce1 Tx

I can't even begin to imagine how this would be possible on any NIC.

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