Steffen,

Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit is shown as legacy.

woodcest:>dladm show-link
bnx1            type: legacy    mtu: 1500       device: bnx1
bnx0            type: legacy    mtu: 1500       device: bnx0

Thanks,

Andrew


On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 15:29 -0400, Steffen Weiberle wrote:
> Andrew Wenlang Zhu wrote On 10/17/06 15:19,:
> > Krgopi,
> > 
> > The card I am using is Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver
> > v2.8.5. Is it GLDv3-based NIC? The OS is SNV-46 on Intel.
> 
> I'm still figuring this out myself :)
> 
> run 'dladm show-link' and if the type is not legacy it is GLD. 
> However, I don't know how to tell if it is v2 or v3.
> 
> Steffen
> 
> > 
> > I set ip_squeue_fanout to 1, but still see the high interrupt rate on
> > one CPU on my test system.
> > 
> > Moreover, I read a slides about NEMO improvement throughput, how can I
> > tell NEMO is at work?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 10:13 -0700, Rajagopal Kunhappan wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi Andrew,
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>I have a four-CPU system with two G-NICs. The system acts as an
> >>>application gateway, and the traffic comes from one NIC and goes out
> >>>through the other one. The throughput rate is about 600M. The OS is
> >>>Solaris Express SNV-46 on Intel platform.
> >>>
> >>>Through mpstat, I find CPU utilization is unbalanced. One CPU is about
> >>>90% busy, and the rest three is about 50%. For the one with 90%, mpstat
> >>>shows its "intr" about 24798, while the other three is about 2000. The
> >>>most of time spending on "sys".
> >>>
> >>>I use Dtrace and find the most frequently calls are for networking I/O.
> >>>
> >>>It appears that Solaris sends all NIC interrupts from both NICs to a
> >>>single CPU. I tried to use "ndd -set /dev/ip ip_squeue_fanout 1", but
> >>>seems no much changes. Do I need to reboot to make the fanout effective?
> >>>  
> >>
> >>If the NIC is gldv3-based, you can enable soft rings. Set 
> >>ip_squeue_fanout to 1, unplumb
> >>and plumb the interface back up again. That would configure soft rings. 
> >>By default, 2
> >>soft rings are used. Soft rings would spread the incoming load to 2 CPUs 
> >>if 2 rings are
> >>configured.
> >>
> >>-krgopi
> >>
> > 
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