On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:03:20PM +0800, Ronnel P. Maglasang wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a way to explicitly assign an interrupt > of a device? I'm running on 6.3 and the two NICs > share the same interrupt. Obviously this will affect > the performance if the NICs are exposed to heavy network > traffic. > > # vmstat -i > interrupt total rate > <sniff> > irq11: em0 vr0+ 1081099 77 > <sniff> > Total 16958562 1222 > > > Looking at the driver's code, I have the initial though > that this is the place where I can modify.
This is the responsibility of the BIOS or ACPI configuration. There is no way to do this via OS software, as far as I know. Try looking at the motherboard manual for what PCI levels (A/B/C/D) share IRQs with what slot, then move cards around. Otherwise, consider purchasing a motherboard that has an APIC (this is not a typo) increasing the IRQ count to 256. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
