Re: V2.4 policy router operates faster/better than V2.6

[Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy M. Guthrie writes:

 > >  > ETH3 Interrupts(calc'd from below):  1479968

 > >  Very strange...
 > >
 > >  eth3 is bound to CPU0 which in turn has all packet load... If we were
 > >  to believe your CPU0 was saturated (due to the drops). We should see no
 > >  (RX) interrupts on eth3. But there is a lot... one irq per every three
 > >  packet. Why?

 > I have no idea why it would be doing this.

 Huh seems you didn't add the patch I sent. Below is diff from my editor to your
 e1000_main.c

                                                        --ro


--- e1000_main.c.jmg    2005-01-12 20:14:08.324168072 +0100
+++ e1000_main.c        2005-01-12 20:17:24.777302656 +0100
@@ -2264,14 +2264,13 @@
        netdev->quota -= work_done;
        
        /* if no Rx and Tx cleanup work was done, exit the polling mode */
-       if(!tx_cleaned || (work_done < work_to_do) || 
-                               !netif_running(netdev)) {
+        if( (!tx_cleaned && (work_done == 0)) || !netif_running(netdev)) {
 quit_polling:  netif_rx_complete(netdev);
                e1000_irq_enable(adapter);
                return 0;
        }
 
-       return (work_done >= work_to_do);
+       return 1;
 }
 
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