From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 17 17:26:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A212416A4E1 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:26:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FAD43D4C for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:26:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6HHQXre038976; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:26:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: Alex Zbyslaw Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:26:16 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <44BB9D21.3010400@dial.pipex.com> <200607171128.00303.jhb@freebsd.org> <44BBBDA6.4010209@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <44BBBDA6.4010209@dial.pipex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607171326.17133.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:26:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1600/Sat Jul 15 11:03:46 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question] X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:26:43 -0000 On Monday 17 July 2006 12:41, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > >On Monday 17 July 2006 10:22, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > > > > >>No responses from questions@. Anyone here understand what's going on? > >>Thanks]. > >>__ > >>I was monitoring a machine with "systat -vmstat" and noticed something > >>about the interrupts and I don't know if it's a problem or not. If it > >>is a problem, is there anything I can do about it? > >> > >>The interrupts for the network interface (em0) on irq 64 exactly match > >>those for a uhc device on irq 16. > >> > >>And the interrupts for the hardware raid (amr) on irq 46 exactly match > >>those for a uhc device on irq 18. > >> > >>The machine is a Dell 2850 running 5.4. Relevant bits from the dmesg are: > >> > >> > > > >FAQ. It's due to brain damage in the Intel PCIX hubs and can't be fixed > >directly. > > > > > > > Thanks. I did search and couldn't find anything; guess I didn't search > for the right thing :-( > > Any idea how much this might impact performance, especially of the disk? > > One thing I realised I missed from original dmesg was > > > Interrupt storm detected on "irq18: uhci2"; throttling interrupt source > > which ties to the disk interrupt. Will that be slowing things down? > Would increasing the storm threshold help (especially disk > performance)? Guess I'm looking for any mitigation that might be possible. > > Thanks again, There's no easy answer on this. You'll have to run your own benchmarks. If you don't need USB, then you may just want to leave it out of your kernel which might help some. -- John Baldwin