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>
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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();
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