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SubjectRe: tg3 bad performance, lots of hardware interrupts
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On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:49 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Harald Hannelius <harald@iki.fi>
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:53:56 +0200 (EET)
>
> > I experience a lot of hardware interrupts with a BCM5751 PCI-express NIC
> > (tg3). modprobe tg3, ifconfig ethX up and friends makes the system
> > unresponsive. Just having the interface up makes the system sluggish.
> >

I just tested a similar NIC using the same kernel and driver, but I did
not notice anything unusual. netperf gave me 941Mbps.

> > Onboard forcedeth works fine (with the same cable).
> >
> > iperf gives me just 2Mbps on a 1Gbps ethernet. Load average near 1.0. top
> > reports 40-50%hi (hardware interrupts) when generating traffic over that
> > interface.

Can you look at /proc/interrupts to see roughly how many are reported
per second when link is down, link is up with no traffic, and with
traffic?

Finally, you can also try ethtool -t eth0 to see if it passes a simple
self test.



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