Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:02:35 +0100
From:      Massimo Lusetti <massimo@cedoc.mo.it>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        'Kris Kennaway' <kris@obsecurity.org>, Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: em interrupt storm
Message-ID:  <1132819355.4307.1.camel@massimo.datacode.it>
In-Reply-To: <4384F807.6050105@samsco.org>
References:  <002801c5f081$f01ff200$642a15ac@smiley> <4384F807.6050105@samsco.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 16:15 -0700, Scott Long wrote:

> What I've done is vacated the use of irq16 on my machines by disabling
> things like usb and if_em.  This isn't ideal, of course.  The storming
> doesn't usually cause a problem, but it can affect performance,
> especially if USB is involved.  I only do this when I'm testing
> performance, otherwise I leave everything enabled and don't worry about
> it.  4.x won't see this problem since it handles interrupts in the
> more traditional way, but using 4.x also has many other tradeoffs that
> may or may not be worthwhile.

That's good to hear. Thanks for pointing it out Scott.

-- 
Massimo.run();





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1132819355.4307.1.camel>