Gigabit Networking

[Glen Turner]

Adam Hawes wrote:

> It seems that the Ubuntu Dapper Server kernel is an old 2.6.15 with
> security and stability patches back ported to it.  They didn't have the
> latest Marvell network patches that fixed the interrupt moderation
> (something about it always being one interrupt per packet regardless of
> the setting) and some fixes for my SATA controller.

Hi Adam,

We should have seen the high level of interrupts in "ethtool -S eth0"
output under "nic_irqs".  I'll make a note of that in the tuning guide
I am writing.

Thanks for posting the follow-up,
Glen

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