Re: 2.6.19-rc1: forcedeth, nobody cared

[Prakash Punnoor]

Am Donnerstag 05 Oktober 2006 19:30 schrieb Fatih AÅÄcÄ:
> 2006/10/5, Prakash Punnoor <prakash@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > subjects say it all. Without irqpoll my nic doesn't work anymore. I added
> > Ingo
> > to cc, as my IRQs look different, so it may be a prob of APIC routing or
> > the
> > like.

> > Can you try booting with pci=nomsi ? I have a similar problem with my

I used snd-hda-intel.disable_msi=1 and this actually helped! Now the nforce 
nic works w/o problems. So it was the audio driver causing havoc on the nic. 
But (I noticed this with the kernel booted with irqpoll, as well) IRQ 
balancing seems not to work anymore:

           CPU0       CPU1
  0:      53826          0   IO-APIC-edge     timer
  1:         66          0   IO-APIC-edge     i8042
  7:          0          0   IO-APIC-edge     parport0
  8:          0          0   IO-APIC-edge     rtc
  9:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi  acpi
 12:       1650          0   IO-APIC-edge     i8042
 14:         63          0   IO-APIC-edge     ide0
 16:       2095          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi  nvidia
 19:          6          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi  ohci1394
 20:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi  ohci_hcd:usb1
 21:         66          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi  ehci_hcd:usb2
 22:       5652          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi  libata
 23:       5105          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi  HDA Intel, eth0
NMI:        155         75
LOC:      53715      53649
ERR:          0


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