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Date:      Fri, 6 May 2011 17:32:12 +0200
From:      Daan Vreeken <Daan@vehosting.nl>
To:        "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Cc:        Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>, Current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Interrupt storm with MSI in combination with em1
Message-ID:  <201105061732.12418.Daan@vehosting.nl>
In-Reply-To: <AF22429520FE47C694D6A647EEE48D8E@multiplay.co.uk>
References:  <201105041734.50738.Daan@vehosting.nl> <201105061702.43073.Daan@vehosting.nl> <AF22429520FE47C694D6A647EEE48D8E@multiplay.co.uk>

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Hi Steven,

On Friday 06 May 2011 17:20:15 Steven Hartland wrote:
> From: "Daan Vreeken" <Daan@vehosting.nl>
>
> > # vmstat -i
> > interrupt                          total       rate
> > irq3: uart1                       917384         63
> > --> irq16: ehci0                   809547235      55608
>
> Have you tried removing USB from the kernel?
>
> USB seems to be a common course of this behaviour and here at least
> removing it from the kernel fixes in all cases assuming you don't
> need it for something?

No, I haven't tried that yet. I could disable USB to run some tests, but I'll 
eventually need it enabled again.
I'll wait for a couple of hours to see if anyone can come up with a test to 
run on the machine while the interrupt is still storming. After that I'll 
reboot it with USB disabled.


Thanks,
-- 
Daan Vreeken
VEHosting
http://VEHosting.nl
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