Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755587Ab3CLPfz (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:35:55 -0400 Received: from mercuryimc.plus.com ([80.229.200.144]:39900 "EHLO centos1.newflow.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755197Ab3CLPfy (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:35:54 -0400 Message-ID: <513F4B58.1000204@mimc.co.uk> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:35:52 +0000 From: Mark Jackson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , lkml Subject: Excessive ethernet interrupts on AM335x board Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3274 Lines: 76 I'm just fighting an issue with ethernet on our custom AM335x board:- # uname -a Linux nanobone 3.9.0-rc2-00113-gd60f039 #139 Tue Mar 12 15:14:01 GMT 2013 armv7l GNU/Linux Every now and then, the whole unit slows to a crawl. The only indication of any problem is:- (a) the serial tty port becomes much less responsive (b) normal ping times jump from 1ms to >10sec (sometimes >20sec !!) (c) the ethernet interrupt count rockets (see below) I've tried to force the problem by flood pinging from my PC. # while true > do grep "58:" /proc/interrupts; sleep 10 > done 58: 1291 INTC 4a100000.ethernet <<< normal pinging (about 100 irqs per 10sec) 58: 1333 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 1372 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 3979 INTC 4a100000.ethernet <<< start flood ping (about 4k irqs per 10sec) 58: 6540 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 17519 INTC 4a100000.ethernet <<< big jump >>> 58: 20169 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 22775 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 25368 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 34598 INTC 4a100000.ethernet <<< big jump >>> 58: 37182 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 39730 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 141220 INTC 4a100000.ethernet <<< whoa !!! >>> 58: 146080 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 149351 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 152922 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 156420 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 159538 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 162711 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 165746 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 168973 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 172128 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 175030 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 177957 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 180782 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 183618 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 186450 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 189242 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 191909 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 194565 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 197153 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 199730 INTC 4a100000.ethernet <<< another big jump >>> 58: 252629 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 262955 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 265557 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 268131 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 272586 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 275623 INTC 4a100000.ethernet <<< here I stop flood pings >>> [ 631.727758] nfs: server 10.0.0.100 not responding, still trying [ 638.738864] nfs: server 10.0.0.100 OK 58: 277694 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 277703 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 277709 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 277719 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 277725 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 277734 INTC 4a100000.ethernet 58: 277745 INTC 4a100000.ethernet As you can see, when I stop the flood pings, the nfs link is now reported as being lost. Any ideas ? Cheers Mark J. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/