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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:04:38 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Interrupt storm and Intel DQ67SW
Message-ID:  <4F5F7016.1060406@sentex.net>

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FreeBSD 8.3, AMD64 (Actually, RELENG_8 as of March 2012)

I upgraded my home server to an Intel DQ67SW motherboard (hardware
version AAG12527-309).  I used a bge PCI-E nic in the 1x slot which
caused an interrupt storm issue with the usb.  Trying an old PCI fxp
card showed the same problem. Even with just  2Mb of pppoe traffic
crossing the bge or fxp, I would see storm issues.  Running top, showed
10% of the system was spending its time servicing interrupts. vmstat -i
showed a rate of close to 10k on irq16.  I upgraded the BIOS to
SWQ6710H.86A.0061.2012.0210.1130 from the Nov 2011 version and all is
fine now.  Everything about the box 'feels' more responsive and
throughput on my wan connection is normal again.

# vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq16: bge0 ehci0+                 40439          3
irq20: fwohci0                         2          0
irq23: ehci1                       22177          2
cpu0: timer                     22062162       2000
irq256: em0                        14825          1
irq257: ahci0                    4874088        441
cpu3: timer                     22054239       1999
cpu1: timer                     22054150       1999
cpu2: timer                     22054168       1999
Total                           93176250       8446




Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2300 CPU @ 2.80GHz (2793.67-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x206a7  Family = 6  Model = 2a
Stepping = 7

Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>

Features2=0x179ae3bf<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,AVX>
  AMD Features=0x28100800<SYSCALL,NX,RDTSCP,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
  TSC: P-state invariant
real memory  = 17179869184 (16384 MB)
avail memory = 16434216960 (15672 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <INTEL  DQ67SW  >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  2
 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  4
 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  6
ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
ichwd module loaded
cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
aesni0: <AES-CBC,AES-XTS> on motherboard
acpi0: <INTEL DQ67SW> on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu2: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu3: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xf000-0xf03f mem
0xfb400000-0xfb7fffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
pci0: <simple comms> at device 22.0 (no driver attached)
atapci0: <Intel ATA controller> port
0xf130-0xf137,0xf120-0xf123,0xf110-0xf117,0xf100-0xf103,0xf0f0-0xf0ff
irq 18 at device 22.2 on pci0
atapci0: [ITHREAD]
ata2: <ATA channel> at channel 0 on atapci0
ata2: [ITHREAD]
ata3: <ATA channel> at channel 1 on atapci0
ata3: [ITHREAD]
uart2: <Non-standard ns8250 class UART with FIFOs> port 0xf0e0-0xf0e7
mem 0xfbc29000-0xfbc29fff irq 17 at device 22.3 on pci0
uart2: [FILTER]
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.3.2> port 0xf080-0xf09f mem
0xfbc00000-0xfbc1ffff,0xfbc28000-0xfbc28fff irq 20 at device 25.0 on pci0
em0: Using an MSI interrupt
em0: [FILTER]
em0: Ethernet address: 00:22:4d:52:5c:34
ehci0: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfbc27000-0xfbc273ff irq
16 at device 26.0 on pci0
ehci0: [ITHREAD]
usbus0: EHCI version 1.0
usbus0: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
pci0: <multimedia, HDA> at device 27.0 (no driver attached)
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 17 at device 28.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
bge0: <HPQ 10/100/1000 Copper Based Gigabit Adapter, ASIC rev. 0x004001>
mem 0xfbb10000-0xfbb1ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
bge0: CHIP ID 0x00004001; ASIC REV 0x04; CHIP REV 0x40; PCI-E
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto, auto-flow
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:10:18:14:15:43
bge0: [ITHREAD]
pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 17 at device 28.4 on pci0
pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, version:
3.80.06.003
twa0: <3ware 9000 series Storage Controller> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem
0xd0000000-0xd1ffffff,0xfba20000-0xfba20fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
twa0: [ITHREAD]
twa0: INFO: (0x15: 0x1300): Controller details:: Model 9650SE-2LP, 2
ports, Firmware FE9X 4.08.00.006, BIOS BE9X 4.08.00.001
pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 18 at device 28.6 on pci0
pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4
xhci0: <XHCI (generic) USB 3.0 controller> mem 0xfb900000-0xfb901fff irq
18 at device 0.0 on pci4
xhci0: [ITHREAD]
xhci0: 32 byte context size.
usbus1 on xhci0
ehci1: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfbc26000-0xfbc263ff irq
23 at device 29.0 on pci0
ehci1: [ITHREAD]
usbus2: EHCI version 1.0
usbus2: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci1
pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
fwohci0: <Lucent FW322/323> mem 0xfb800000-0xfb800fff irq 20 at device
3.0 on pci5
fwohci0: [ITHREAD]
fwohci0: OHCI version 1.0 (ROM=0)
fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 8.
fwohci0: EUI64 00:22:4d:ff:ff:52:8f:44
fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:22:4d:52:8f:44
fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:22:4d:52:8f:44
fwip0: <IP over FireWire> on firewire0
fwip0: Firewire address: 00:22:4d:ff:ff:52:8f:44 @ 0xfffe00000000, S400,
maxrec 2048
dcons_crom0: <dcons configuration ROM> on firewire0
dcons_crom0: bus_addr 0x46ac000
fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
fwohci0: fwohci_intr_core: BUS reset
fwohci0: fwohci_intr_core: node_id=0x00000000, SelfID Count=1,
CYCLEMASTER mode
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
ahci0: <Intel Cougar Point AHCI SATA controller> port
0xf0d0-0xf0d7,0xf0c0-0xf0c3,0xf0b0-0xf0b7,0xf0a0-0xf0a3,0xf060-0xf07f
mem 0xfbc25000-0xfbc257ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0
ahci0: [ITHREAD]
ahci0: AHCI v1.30 with 6 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier not supported
ahcich0: <AHCI channel> at channel 0 on ahci0
ahcich0: [ITHREAD]
ahcich1: <AHCI channel> at channel 1 on ahci0
ahcich1: [ITHREAD]
ahcich2: <AHCI channel> at channel 2 on ahci0
ahcich2: [ITHREAD]
ahcich3: <AHCI channel> at channel 3 on ahci0
ahcich3: [ITHREAD]
ahcich4: <AHCI channel> at channel 4 on ahci0
ahcich4: [ITHREAD]
ahcich5: <AHCI channel> at channel 5 on ahci0
ahcich5: [ITHREAD]
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on
acpi0
Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900
atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0
uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
uart0: [FILTER]
tpm0: <Trusted Platform Module> iomem 0xfed40000-0xfed44fff on acpi0
tpm: WEC WPCT200 rev 0x46
ichwd0: <Intel Cougar Point watchdog timer> on isa0
ichwd0: Intel Cougar Point watchdog timer (ICH10 or equivalent)
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem
0xc0000-0xcdfff,0xce000-0xcefff,0xcf000-0xd0fff,0xd1000-0xd2fff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0
p4tcc0: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu0
est1: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu1
p4tcc1: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu1
est2: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu2
p4tcc2: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu2
est3: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu3
p4tcc3: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu3
ZFS filesystem version 5
ZFS storage pool version 28
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0 cable IRM irm(0)  (me)
firewire0: bus manager 0
usbus0: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
usbus1: 5.0Gbps Super Speed USB v3.0
usbus2: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
ugen0.1: <Intel> at usbus0
uhub0: <Intel EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
ugen1.1: <0x1033> at usbus1
uhub1: <0x1033 XHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus1
ugen2.1: <Intel> at usbus2
uhub2: <Intel EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus2
uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
uhub2: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ugen0.2: <vendor 0x8087> at usbus0
uhub3: <vendor 0x8087 product 0x0024, class 9/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2>
on usbus0
ugen2.2: <vendor 0x8087> at usbus2
uhub4: <vendor 0x8087 product 0x0024, class 9/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2>
on usbus2
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
ugen0.3: <Hauppauge> at usbus0
ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
ada0: <Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 JP4OA3EA> ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada0: Command Queueing enabled
ada0: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada1 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0
ada1: <Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 JP4OA3EA> ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada1: Command Queueing enabled
ada1: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada2 at ahcich2 bus 0 scbus3 target 0 lun 0
ada2: <Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 JP4OA3EA> ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
ada2: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada2: Command Queueing enabled
ada2: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada3 at ahcich3 bus 0 scbus4 target 0 lun 0
ada3: <Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 JP4OA3EA> ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
ada3: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada3: Command Queueing enabled
ada3: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
da0 at twa0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <AMCC 9650SE-2LP DISK 4.08> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
da0: 100.000MB/s transfers
da0: 953664MB (1953103872 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 121575C)
SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
ugen0.4: <vendor 0x04d9> at usbus0
ukbd0: <vendor 0x04d9 product 0x1400, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.43, addr 4>
on usbus0
kbd2 at ukbd0
ums0: <vendor 0x04d9 product 0x1400, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.43, addr 4>
on usbus0
ums0: 5 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=1
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a

	---Mike


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Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400
Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net
Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net
Cambridge, Ontario Canada   http://www.tancsa.com/



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