Interrupt storm

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Tuesday 29 March 2005 01:52 pm, Dan Cojocar wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:35:33 -0500, Jung-uk Kim <jkim at niksun.com> 
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 01:22 pm, Dan Cojocar wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I noticed the following interrupt storm in my dmesg:
> > >
> > > Interrupt storm detected on "irq11: rl1"; throttling interrupt
> > > source Interrupt storm detected on "irq5: rl0"; throttling
> > > interrupt source
> > >
> > > Here is my vmstat -i:
> > > interrupt                          total       rate
> > > irq0: clk                         128600        199
> > > irq1: atkbd0                        2499          3
> > > irq4: sio0                             2          0
> > > irq5: rl0                         128901        200
> > > irq8: rtc                          82294        127
> > > irq11: rl1                        128902        200
> > > irq12: psm0                        16152         25
> > > irq14: ata0                        12600         19
> > > irq15: ata1                           71          0
> > > Total                             500021        776
> > >
> > > and here is my dmesg:
> > > http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/dmesg.txt
> > >
> > > I have options DEVICE_POLLING and options HZ=200, i have tested
> > > with greater HZ values like 1000, and without DEVICE_POLLING 
> > > but i have the same storm.
> >
> > Try this:
> >
> > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200503161154.04555.jkim
> >
> > Jung-uk Kim
>
> Thank you for your quick response.
> I set debug.acpi.quirks=4 but i get the same result.

:-(  Some times nForce chipsets' broken IRQ routing is beyond repair.  

> Should i look for something specific.

Do you have the latest BIOS?

Jung-uk Kim

> Thanks,
> Dan