"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After performing various tests I came to the following workaround for
> APIC lockups which people observe under IRQ load, mostly for networking
> stuff. I believe the test should work in all cases as it basically
> implements a manual replacement for EOI messages. In my simulated
> environment I was unable to get a lockup with the code in place, even
> though I was getting about every other level-triggered IRQ misdelivered.
>
> Please test it extensively, as much as you can, before I submit it for
> inclusion. If you ever get "Aieee!!! Remote IRR still set after unlock!"
> message, please report it to me immediately -- it means the code failed.
>
No messages.
> There is also an additional debugging/statistics counter provided in
> /proc/cpuinfo that counts interrupts which got delivered with its trigger
> mode mismatched. Check it out to find if you get any misdelivered
> interrupts at all.
>
I'm running my default webserver load test, and I get ~40 /second, 92735
total.
bw_tcp says 1.13 MB/sec, that's wire speed.
tcpdump | grep 'sack ' doesn't show unusually many lost packets.
Look promising.
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