[Soekris] high CPU usage for network interrupts on 4801

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <35845943cb41beea1d4af7c1126a3a04 at mac.com>, Trevor Talbot writes:
>On Sep 16, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Jan Hoevers wrote:
>
>> I'm using a Soekris net4801-60 as a router, with a lan1641 in the PCI 
>> slot, giving me 7 ethernet ports. I'm running pfSense 1.0.1, a routing 
>> package based on FreeBSD 6.1 and PF.


The 4801 unfortunately has all three internal network cards on the
same interrupt line, that's not a good thing because for every interrupt
the kernel will have to check all three network interfaces to see
where it came from.

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