Re: Interrupt storm mitigation needed

[Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih%hamartun.priv.no@localhost>]

Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih%hamartun.priv.no@localhost> writes:

> The machine has now been running for nine hours, doing a "-j 2" system
> build, and also running backups during the night -- with no incidents.
> The interrupt counts, though, are up to 600 thousand on the uhci2 pin,
> 400 thousand on the uhci0 pin, along with about 3 million "legit"
> interrupts for amr0, and 2 million for wm0.

Oh, and 800 thousand on ehci0 -- didn't notice until now.  It's usually
been lots and lots for uhci2, significantly fewer for uhci0, and even
fewer than that for ehci0.  The pattern now looks somewhat different,
but this is just one sample, of course.

-tih
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