Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-15 Thread John Baldwin
. In that case there is nothing you can do. You can read more about the gory details here: http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/papers/bsdcan/2007/ What was changed in 7.x in terms of assigning interrupts? I have another box running on 7.0 (2 NICs). I noticed there are no devices sharing

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-14 Thread Ronnel P. Maglasang
/bsdcan/2007/ What was changed in 7.x in terms of assigning interrupts? I have another box running on 7.0 (2 NICs). I noticed there are no devices sharing interrupts. But if 6.x is installed on the same box (previous installation), the two NICs will share the same interrupt. I'm now looking

assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread Ronnel P. Maglasang
Hi All, Is there a way to explicitly assign an interrupt of a device? I'm running on 6.3 and the two NICs share the same interrupt. Obviously this will affect the performance if the NICs are exposed to heavy network traffic. # vmstat -i interrupt total rate sniff

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:03:20PM +0800, Ronnel P. Maglasang wrote: Is there a way to explicitly assign an interrupt of a device? What about BIOS? What about physically reshuffling the cards if they aren't on-board ones? -- Eygene ____ _.--. # \`.|\.....-'`

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:03:20PM +0800, Ronnel P. Maglasang wrote: Hi All, Is there a way to explicitly assign an interrupt of a device? I'm running on 6.3 and the two NICs share the same interrupt. Obviously this will affect the performance if the NICs are exposed to heavy network

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:40:54AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Otherwise, consider purchasing a motherboard that has an APIC (this is not a typo) increasing the IRQ count to 256. This is wrong. The first IO-APIC gives you 8 additional interrupts to the 16 ISA interrupt lines. Every additional

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:40:03PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:40:54AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Otherwise, consider purchasing a motherboard that has an APIC (this is not a typo) increasing the IRQ count to 256. This is wrong. The first IO-APIC gives

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:56:31AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Regarding it means you can still get interrupt sharing, I'd like to hear more about why/how that's possible with a system sporting at least one I/O APIC. You still have a limited number of interrupt lines. Many non-highend

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 13 November 2008 05:03:20 am Ronnel P. Maglasang wrote: Hi All, Is there a way to explicitly assign an interrupt of a device? I'm running on 6.3 and the two NICs share the same interrupt. Obviously this will affect the performance if the NICs are exposed to heavy network

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 13 November 2008 11:56:31 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:40:03PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:40:54AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Otherwise, consider purchasing a motherboard that has an APIC (this is not a typo)

Re: assigning interrupts

2008-11-13 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 13 November 2008 10:40:03 am Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:40:54AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Otherwise, consider purchasing a motherboard that has an APIC (this is not a typo) increasing the IRQ count to 256. This is wrong. The first IO-APIC gives you