Too much interrupts on ixgbe

[Ryan Stone]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Sergey Saley <sergeysaley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nothing has changed after increasing mbufs count increasing:
>
> irq256: ix0:que 0                3013004       2431
> irq257: ix0:que 1                 970295        783
> irq258: ix0:que 2                 574782        463
> irq259: ix0:que 3                 520764        420
> irq260: ix0:link                       1          0
> irq261: ix1:que 0                3185946       2571
> irq262: ix1:que 1                  20425         16
> irq263: ix1:que 2                  10098          8
> irq264: ix1:que 3                   6999          5
> irq265: ix1:link                       3          0

What kind of traffic are you sending?  How many flows?  Is it straight
Ethernet/IP/TCP(/UDP), or is there any kind of tunneling in use?