Re: Spreading NIC interrupts across multiple CPUs

2014-03-28 Thread Aaron Seelye
On 3/26/2014 10:30 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: This is an 8 core machine with HT enabled, 16 logical CPUs, so right off the bat it is dramatically different than the Compaq machine below as far as the kernel is concerned and how scheduling is performed. The current mask may or may not be correct fo

Re: Spreading NIC interrupts across multiple CPUs

2014-03-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/26/2014 5:23 PM, Aaron Seelye wrote: > On 3/26/2014 2:44 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> Please read this for educational background, especially the Note at the >> bottom of the page. >> >> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Performance_Tuning_Gui

Re: Spreading NIC interrupts across multiple CPUs

2014-03-26 Thread Aaron Seelye
On 3/26/2014 2:44 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Please read this for educational background, especially the Note at the bottom of the page. https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Performance_Tuning_Guide/s-cpu-irq.html Then ask an intelligent question abo

Re: Spreading NIC interrupts across multiple CPUs

2014-03-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/26/2014 1:28 PM, Aaron Seelye wrote: > I have a question regarding interrupt balancing for a NIC across CPUs. I > have a Dell R710 (dual quad core) with embedded broadcom 5709 that seems > to put everything on the CPU0. I even threw an Intel Pro/1000 PT in the > Dell, but this is showing the

Re: Spreading NIC interrupts across multiple CPUs

2014-03-26 Thread Aaron Seelye
I don't on either the Dell or HP. I tried it on the Dells, but it didn't do anything on one, and just moved the interrupts from CPU0 to CPU1 on the other. On the HP that is balancing perfectly, I don't have the irqbalance package installed, it just worked from the get-go. -Aaron On 3/26/20

Re: Spreading NIC interrupts across multiple CPUs

2014-03-26 Thread Mr Queue
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:28:34 -0700 Aaron Seelye wrote: > My question is this, what option(s) could be present with the R710 bios > that would cause something like this to happen? If not the bios, > where/what else should I look at? You don't have irqbalance running by chance do you? Because t

Spreading NIC interrupts across multiple CPUs

2014-03-26 Thread Aaron Seelye
I have a question regarding interrupt balancing for a NIC across CPUs. I have a Dell R710 (dual quad core) with embedded broadcom 5709 that seems to put everything on the CPU0. I even threw an Intel Pro/1000 PT in the Dell, but this is showing the same problem. For a test system, I have an HP