Re: tg3 bad performance, lots of hardware interrupts

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 13:12:57 EST


On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Michael Chan wrote:

> > Phew, I thought that running ethtool -t was like doing stop-A-sync on
> > a Sun. It took almost half an hour to run that ethtool -t command;
> Something is very wrong. ethtool -t should only take a few seconds to
> complete. You can try ethtool -t eth0 online to reduce the number of
> tests to see if it makes a difference.
> How many of these NICs do you have? If you have more than one, do they
> all behave the same way? Have they ever worked well before?

Harald, is the IRQ of eth0 shared with any other device? (cat
/proc/interrupts will show).

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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