em driver - strange behavior

Miroslav Slavkov miroslav at svishtov.net
Wed Nov 15 14:39:06 UTC 2006


Hi.
I've posted some test with the latest em driver in the previous thread "Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch"...
It's working fine.
Now i see some strange behavior. Machine is Dual Intel Xeon  5110, with SuperMicro X7-DBE mainboard. It has dual port integrated Intel PRO/1000 EB lan card, one Intel 82542 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, and one Intel PRO/1000 PT.
The problem is the Intel PRO/1000 PT card. All other cards are in use (in production mode), only this card is down and not used right now, but it's generating more interrupts than any other card.

em3: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
        ether 00:15:17:0e:10:90
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: no carrier


output from systat -vm (interrupts/irq/interface):
 14235 16: em3
  6214 18: em0
    914 19: em1
 13613 24: em2

currently it has around 200Mbit/s total bandwidth on the other cards

system is: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #1: Tue Nov 14 17:24:17 EET 2006 amd64
EM_INTR_FAST is defined in em driver
no polling

Any clues?

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Miroslav


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