Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756376AbYC1QsW (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:48:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752375AbYC1QsG (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:48:06 -0400 Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.17]:3391 "EHLO mms1.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751822AbYC1QsF (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:48:05 -0400 X-Server-Uuid: 02CED230-5797-4B57-9875-D5D2FEE4708A Subject: Re: tg3 bad performance, lots of hardware interrupts From: "Michael Chan" To: "Harald Hannelius" cc: "David Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev In-Reply-To: References: <20080327.144925.196529669.davem@davemloft.net> <1206666100.5368.6.camel@dell> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:49:20 -0800 Message-ID: <1206726560.6866.5.camel@dell> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-8) X-WSS-ID: 6BF3FEBE60W18467764-05-01 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 17 On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:04 +0200, Harald Hannelius wrote: > Phew, I thought that running ethtool -t was like doing stop-A-sync on > a > Sun. It took almost half an hour to run that ethtool -t command; Something is very wrong. ethtool -t should only take a few seconds to complete. You can try ethtool -t eth0 online to reduce the number of tests to see if it makes a difference. How many of these NICs do you have? If you have more than one, do they all behave the same way? Have they ever worked well before? -- 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/