Your network adapters do not support MSI-X (they only support MSI and legacy interrupts). The only adapter which supports MSI-X that is supported in the e1000e driver is the 82574.
>-----Original Message----- >From: Taehwan Weon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 1:58 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [E1000-devel] (help) interrupt vector separation in linux kernel >2.6.27 with e1000e 0.5.8.2-NAPI > >Dear experts, > >I spent a week to separate interrupt vectors(tx,rx,link) in my >following hardware: > CPU : 4-core xeon 5420 > On-board NIC: Intel Pro 1000 (attached as eth0,eth1) > External NIC : Intel Pro 1000 PT DualPort Server Adaptor >(attached as eth2,3) > Kenel version: 2.6.27 (stable) > E1000E driver : 0.5.8.2-NAPI with IntMode of '2' >And I change CPU affinity of eth2 to 'f'. > >After booting, my interrupt shown as follows: > > CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 > 0: 74 84 81 78 IO-APIC-edge timer > 1: 2 2 2 2 IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 9: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi > 12: 28 29 29 28 IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 14: 16 16 18 16 IO-APIC-edge >ata_piix > 15: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge >ata_piix > 19: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi >ata_piix >500: 157506458 157500913 157629609 157627832 PCI-MSI-edge eth2 >501: 0 1 1 3 PCI-MSI-edge >502: 695543 701485 709524 711300 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 >503: 287909 287484 1407 1413 PCI-MSI-edge ioc0 >506: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge >aerdrv >507: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge >aerdrv >508: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge >aerdrv >509: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge >aerdrv >510: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge >aerdrv >511: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge >aerdrv >NMI: 0 0 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts >LOC: 54779616 54377785 53932855 52836722 Local timer interrupts >RES: 1122690 644047 1157453 586999 Rescheduling interrupts >CAL: 612 660 629 226 function call >interrupts >TLB: 80069 90854 80994 88350 TLB shootdowns >TRM: 0 0 0 0 Thermal event >interrupts >THR: 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC >interrupts >SPU: 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts > >I found a strange interrupt vector for interrupt number '501'. But I >don't know what it is. > >The output of ethtool for eth2 is as follows: >driver: e1000e >version: 0.5.8.2-NAPI >firmware-version: 5.11-2 >bus-info: 0000:07:00.0 > >Any 'HINT' would be highly appreciated. >Thanks in advanec. > >Tawan Won > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >challenge >Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >prizes >Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >world >http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >_______________________________________________ >E1000-devel mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
