SMP and interrupt storm
Tech Lab Manager
tech at liveoaksf.org
Wed Jan 30 10:11:23 PST 2008
Hello,
Sorry for the semi-cross-post from freebsd-questions but I didn't get
any bites there.
Building 6.3-RELEASE on dual Xeon (4 CPU) boxes:
options SMP
device apic
SMP kernel builds fine, all 4 CPUs launch on reboot.
But I get a TON of interrupts from acpi0 -- about 67,000 per second
according to vmstat -i. With system at idle with almost no services
running, here is output of top -S:
last pid: 877; load averages: 1.18, 0.48, 0.19
75 processes: 6 running, 54 sleeping, 15 waiting
CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.2% system, 22.4% interrupt,
77.4% idle
Mem: 31M Active, 12M Inact, 28M Wired, 16K Cache, 15M Buf, 3822M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU
COMMAND
10 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN 3 1:11 99.18%
idle: cpu3
13 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU0 0 1:10 98.88%
idle: cpu0
12 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU1 1 1:09 98.78%
idle: cpu1
21 root 1 -52 -171 0K 8K CPU2 2 0:54 87.24%
irq9: acpi0
11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN 2 0:17 11.19%
idle: cpu2
Notice high load and interrupt %.
Same thing happened with 7.0-RELEASE_BETA4.
If turn off ACPI (set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in /boot/loader.conf),
the interrupt storm ceases, but then I'm only running on one CPU.
The BIOS ACPI settings are all Enabled. Hyperthreading is Enabled.
These machines have been running RedHat Enterprise 5.0 with full
multiprocessor support.
Any pointers? TIA.
-- John
--
John Berliner
Live Oak School
http://www.liveoaksf.org
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