Too much interrupts on ixgbe

Sergey Saley sergeysaley at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 07:22:09 UTC 2011


Ryan Stone-2 wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Sergey Saley <sergeysaley@> wrote:
>> MPD5, netgraph, pppoe.Types of traffic - any (customer traffic).
>> Bying this card I counted on a 3-4G traffic at 3-4K pppoe sessions.
>> It turned to 600-700Mbit/s, about 50K pps at 700-800 pppoe sessions.
> 
> PPPoE is your problem.  The Intel cards can't load-balance PPPoE
> traffic, so everything goes to one queue.  It may be possible to write
> a netgraph module to load-balance the traffic across your CPUs.
> 

OK, thank You for explanation.
And what about the large number of interrupts?
As for me, it's too much...
irq256: ix0:que 0              240536944       6132
irq257: ix0:que 1               89090444       2271
irq258: ix0:que 2               93222085       2376
irq259: ix0:que 3               89435179       2280
irq260: ix0:link                       1          0
irq261: ix1:que 0              269468769       6870
irq262: ix1:que 1                 110974          2
irq263: ix1:que 2                 434214         11
irq264: ix1:que 3                 112281          2
irq265: ix1:link                       1          0


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