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

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:34:01AM -0800, Won De Erick wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 
> >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:07:37AM -0800, Won De Erick wrote:
> >> Noted on this, I will update you through this thread.
> >> 
> >> However is there any possibility of the following:
> >> 
> >> > I don't know if there's a way to split the interrupt request for each bce's Rx and Tx,
> >> > which means a total of four IRQs, and eventually four cores (or 4 CPUs)
> >> > for the transactions. With this way, the IDLE processors would be utilized.
> >> 
> >> What I mean here is, for the two interfaces:
> >> 
> >> one IRQ for bce0 Rx
> >> one IRQ for bce0 Tx
> >> one IRQ for bce1 Rx
> >> one IRQ for bce1 Tx
> 
> > I can't even begin to imagine how this would be possible on any NIC.
> 
> Yeah, but I can't also imagine how beneficial this idea when implemented.

Right -- me either.  What you just said begs the question.  :-)

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