IRQ31 and IRQ32 on HPDL585 running FreeBSD 7.0 are consuming HIGH CPU usage

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:38:15PM -0800, Won De Erick wrote:
> I am conducting a CPU utilization testing with my box(HP DL 585 running FreeBSD 7.0), and come up with the results below:
> 
> 52 root        1 -68    -     0K    16K CPU11  b 123:53 100.00% irq32: bce1
> 51 root        1 -68    -     0K    16K CPU10  a 119:28 89.06% irq31: bce0
> 
> irq31 and irq32 are consuming high CPU usage, which i think the cause of hard reset.

There was a ***major*** bce(4) cleanup that just happened.  Your 7.0 box
will not have these changes.  Please upgrade your box to RELENG_7
(a.k.a. 7.1-PRERELEASE), csup'd recently (today preferably), and try
your tests again:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-November/046482.html

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