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Subject: Re: High interrupts w/ Cisco 350 card
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On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:01 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-Sep-20 19:44:07 -0400, Peter D. Quilty wrote:
> >I'm running 5.4-RELEASE-p6 on a Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop.  My network
> >card is a Cisco 350 PCMCIA card.  I'm experiencing a very high rate of
> >interrupts during heavy network traffic.
> 
> Not quite.  "vmstat -i" reports 173 interrupts/sec.  That's not high.
> "systat -iostat" shows a ludicrously high interrupt load though.
> 
> I notice that almost all the hardware on your laptop maps to irq 11 -
> that's undesirable.  Can you convince your BIOS to use different
> interrupt mappings?



No, the PCI bus is hardcoded to use only irqs 10 & 11.  The video card
uses 10 and everything else shares 11.


> >  This Cisco card works fine in every other laptop I have.
> 
> What OS?



All are running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE.


> >  I suspect it might be a cardbus problem, but I don't
> >know how to resolve it or troubleshoot it any further.
> 
> The PCCard bus is fairly atrocious (basically ISA) but isn't that bad.
> I can get roughly wire speed from a 10baseT NIC without serious CPU
> strain on a P-233 laptop.
> 
> Have you tried anything other that FreeBSD 5.4 on your Tecra?



No, I haven't.  It is my primary laptop and I would prefer not to have
to load another OS merely for testing.


> >interrupt                          total       rate
> ...
> >irq11: cbb0 cbb1+++              6773905        173
> ...
> >          /0   /10  /20  /30  /40  /50  /60  /70  /80  /90  /100
> >cpu  user|XXXXX
> >     nice|
> >   system|X
> >interrupt|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> >     idle|XXX
> ...