Re: High IRQ load in NetBSD DomainU

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:01:18PM +0300, Markus Kovero wrote:
> Hi there, I've encoutered intresting problem. I'm running linux Domain0 
> and two NetBSD DomainU's. After upgrading to Xen3 there is constant high 
> IRQ load on both NetBSD domainU's which did not happen before. It causes 
> major slowdown on DomainU's
> 
> http://staff.fiveam.org/mrtg/irq.html there you can see mrtg graph how 
> it peaked to over 8000 IRQ requests per second after upgrading to Xen3.
> Loads are considerably high but CPU idle is 100%.
> What might be causing this problem?

Could you try a current kernel ? I havn't had time to look at this but
someone else reported here that current kernels don't have this issue.
It's just as a data point, I'll try to get netbsd-3 fixed in not too long.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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