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Date:      Fri, 06 May 2011 11:46:41 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Daan Vreeken <Daan@vehosting.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Interrupt storm with MSI in combination with em1
Message-ID:  <4DC417E1.8010405@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <201105061702.43073.Daan@vehosting.nl>
References:  <201105041734.50738.Daan@vehosting.nl>	<201105052217.51893.Daan@vehosting.nl>	<BANLkTi=AMzUbjfJmvtdGaBM69YzZ2tq=0g@mail.gmail.com> <201105061702.43073.Daan@vehosting.nl>

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On 5/6/2011 11:02 AM, Daan Vreeken wrote:
> One core is spending half it's time handling interrupts.
> /var/log/messages doesn't show any new message since the storm 
> started. "vmstat -i" now shows :
> 
> 	# vmstat -i
> 	interrupt                          total       rate
> 	irq3: uart1                       917384         63
> -->	irq16: ehci0                   809547235      55608
> 
> Apart from spending far too much time handling interrupts, the machine works 
> fine, so I'll let it run in case anyone wants me to try something on it.
> 


Do you have any usb devices plugged in ? ie what does
usbconfig

show ?

Also, what USB settings do you have in the BIOS ? I would try disabling
usb legacy mode and and things like 80-64 translation.

	---Mike


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