Can you send an output of cat /proc/interrupts ? Is there any device sharing the IRQ line with the network interface?
Bnx2 has NAPI support. The recent changes you saw recently are not related, they are improvements to the NAPI machanism (to support multiple device queues, not specific to bnx2) Aviv Greenberg On 12/19/07, Dotan Shavit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Oded Arbel wrote: > > I can see that a lot of time is spent in the "hard-IRQ" region - > sometimes > > more then all other regions together. > > Lets look for more hints... > > - Anything interesting in the logs (during boot and after) ? > - Lets plug out all the hardware you can: network , USB, disks... > - rmmod all the modules you can. > - Boot with a different kernel version. > - Nothing yet? Lets play with the BIOS... > > What stops the IRQs? > How far will you go to catch an IRQ? > > # > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
