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Re: Gigabit Firewall NIC Interrupt Performance Problem

From: Kevin (kkadowgmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 21:28:50 CDT


On 6/1/05, Marco Peereboom <slashpeereboom.us> wrote:
> I said "there was a boo boo in the bge interrupt handler"; this
> affects ALL bge.

Good to hear. I'll have to try a snapshot and see if it addresses
the bge issues I have (PE1750 silently dropping some TCP packets). Or
should I wait a few more weeks for the bleeding edge code to clot?

> bge0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5704C" rev 0x02:
> irq 15: address: 00:0f:1f:68:49:f0
> brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY, rev. 0
> bge1 at pci3 dev 0 function 1 "Broadcom BCM5704C" rev 0x02:
> irq 14: address: 00:0f:1f:68:49:f1
> brgphy1 at bge1 phy 1: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY, rev. 0

I read in an earlier thread there is a definite performance advantage to
setting all your GigE interfaces to the same interrupt?

Kevin