High CPU usage on interrupt processing
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Hello,
I’ve installed pfSense 2.4.3 on Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX1330 M3.
The full configuration is:
MB: Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX1330 M3
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v6 @ 3.00GHz
RAM: 8G
RAID: Fujitsu PRAID CP400i SAS (2 disks in RAID1, 1TB)
LAN: PLAN-CP4x1Gbit-Cu-Intel-I350-T4 x2 (8 eth port on PCI + 2 integrated, also Intel)And everything works fine as far as I tested — all 10 LANs, RAID, no errors in dmesg.
There’s only one thing that concerns me — high CPU load on interrupt processing.Server is currently idle, but interrupt processing is always at around 4% up to 18% (rare peaks).
Is it OK or something doesn’t work as expected?Here’s some system output:
top: last pid: 98015; load averages: 0.21, 0.25, 0.22 up 0+00:28:40 15:05:59 42 processes: 1 running, 41 sleeping CPU: 0.1% user, 0.0% nice, 0.1% system, 4.2% interrupt, 95.6% idle Mem: 51M Active, 55M Inact, 272M Wired, 29M Buf, 7252M Free Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 315 root 1 22 0 263M 38960K accept 0 0:02 0.38% php-fpm 97182 root 1 20 0 20068K 3380K CPU2 2 0:00 0.02% top 22538 root 1 20 0 37704K 7992K kqread 2 0:00 0.01% nginx 16689 root 5 52 0 13036K 2356K uwait 1 0:00 0.01% dpingervmstat –i: interrupt total rate irq4: uart0 223 0 cpu0:timer 355780 203 cpu3:timer 842198 480 cpu2:timer 283307 162 cpu1:timer 274212 156 irq284: mfi0 126370 72 irq285: xhci0 55 0 irq286: ahci0 39 0 irq287: igb4:que 0 18894 11 irq288: igb4:que 1 2932 2 irq289: igb4:que 2 5402 3 irq290: igb4:que 3 2363 1 irq291: igb4:link 2 0 irq292: igb5:que 0 1694 1 irq293: igb5:que 1 1694 1 irq294: igb5:que 2 1694 1 irq295: igb5:que 3 1694 1 irq296: igb5:link 1 0 irq302: igb7:que 0 1693 1 irq303: igb7:que 1 1693 1 irq304: igb7:que 2 1693 1 irq305: igb7:que 3 1693 1 irq306: igb7:link 1 0 irq307: igb8:que 0 1693 1 irq308: igb8:que 1 1693 1 irq309: igb8:que 2 1693 1 irq310: igb8:que 3 1693 1 irq311: igb8:link 1 0 irq312: igb9:que 0 1694 1 irq313: igb9:que 1 1694 1 irq314: igb9:que 2 1694 1 irq315: igb9:que 3 1694 1 irq316: igb9:link 3 0 Total 1938879 1106 -
Do you have powerd enabled (speedstep)?
Steve
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No, powerd is not enabled.
I attached dmesg output below, maybe it will give some additional clues to what's going on.
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FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p7 #10 r313908+986837ba7e9(RELENG_2_4): Mon Mar 26 18:08:25 CDT 2018 root@buildbot2.netgate.com:/builder/ce-243/tmp/obj/builder/ce-243/tmp/FreeBSD-src/sys/pfSense amd64 FreeBSD clang version 5.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_501/final 320880) (based on LLVM 5.0.1) VT(efifb): resolution 1024x768 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v6 @ 3.00GHz (3000.10-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x906e9 Family=0x6 Model=0x9e Stepping=9 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x7ffafbff<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,SDBG,FMA,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND> AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM> AMD Features2=0x121<LAHF,ABM,Prefetch> Structured Extended Features=0x29c6fbf<FSGSBASE,TSCADJ,SGX,BMI1,HLE,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,RTM,NFPUSG,MPX,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,CLFLUSHOPT,PROCTRACE> XSAVE Features=0xf<XSAVEOPT,XSAVEC,XINUSE,XSAVES> VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB) avail memory = 7944486912 (7576 MB) Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600 ACPI APIC Table: <FUJ D3375-B1> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s) random: unblocking device. ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-119 on motherboard SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Timecounter "TSC-low" frequency 1500049087 Hz quality 1000 random: entropy device external interface wlan: mac acl policy registered kbd0 at kbdmux0 netmap: loaded module module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0xffffffff81162bc0, 0) error 19 random: registering fast source Intel Secure Key RNG random: fast provider: "Intel Secure Key RNG" nexus0 cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard padlock0: No ACE support. acpi0: <FUJ D3375-B1> on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 cpu2: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 cpu3: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on acpi0 Timecounter "HPET" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 950 Event timer "HPET" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 550 Event timer "HPET1" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 440 Event timer "HPET2" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 440 Event timer "HPET3" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 440 Event timer "HPET4" frequency 24000000 Hz quality 440 atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x77 irq 8 on acpi0 atrtc0: Warning: Couldn't map I/O. Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0 attimer0: <AT timer> port 0x40-0x43,0x50-0x53 irq 0 on acpi0 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 Event timer "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100 Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1808-0x180b on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 igb0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 2.5.3-k> mem 0xdf100000-0xdf1fffff,0xdf28c000-0xdf28ffff at device 0.0 on pci1 igb0: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors igb0: Ethernet address: b4:96:91:13:32:40 igb0: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0 igb0: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1 igb0: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2 igb0: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3 igb0: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024 igb1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 2.5.3-k> mem 0xdf000000-0xdf0fffff,0xdf288000-0xdf28bfff at device 0.1 on pci1 igb1: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors igb1: Ethernet address: b4:96:91:13:32:41 igb1: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0 igb1: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1 igb1: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2 igb1: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3 igb1: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024 igb2: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 2.5.3-k> mem 0xdef00000-0xdeffffff,0xdf284000-0xdf287fff at device 0.2 on pci1 igb2: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors igb2: Ethernet address: b4:96:91:13:32:42 igb2: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0 igb2: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1 igb2: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2 igb2: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3 igb2: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024 igb3: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 2.5.3-k> mem 0xdee00000-0xdeefffff,0xdf280000-0xdf283fff at device 0.3 on pci1 igb3: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors igb3: Ethernet address: b4:96:91:13:32:43 igb3: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0 igb3: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1 igb3: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2 igb3: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3 igb3: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024 pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.1 on pci0 pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 AVAGO MegaRAID SAS FreeBSD mrsas driver version: 06.709.07.00-fbsd mfi0: <Fury> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xdf500000-0xdf50ffff,0xdf400000-0xdf4fffff at device 0.0 on pci2 mfi0: Using MSI mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23 mfi0: FW MaxCmds = 240, limiting to 128 mfi0: MaxCmd = 240, Drv MaxCmd = 128, MaxSgl = 70, state = 0xb73c00f0 mfi0: 465 (581773451s/0x0020/info) - Shutdown command received from host mfi0: 466 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Firmware initialization started (PCI ID 005f/1000/1211/1734) mfi0: 467 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 4.270.01-4870 mfi0: 468 (boot + 11s/0x0020/info) - Package version 24.7.0-0061 mfi0: 469 (boot + 11s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision mfi0: 470 (boot + 49s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 02(e0x3e/s0) xhci0: mfi0: <Intel Sunrise Point USB 3.0 controller> mem 0xdf800000-0xdf80ffff at device 20.0 on pci0 xhci0: 32 bytes context size, 64-bit DMA 471 (boot + 49s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 02(e0x3e/s0) Info: enclPd=3e, scsiType=0, portMap=00, sasAddr=4433221102000000,000usbus00000000000000 mfi0: 472 (boot + 49s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 03(e0x3e/s1) on xhci0 mfi0: usbus0: 5.0Gbps Super Speed USB v3.0 473 (boot + 49s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 03(e0x3e/s1) Info: enclPd=3e, scsiType=0, portMap=01, sasAddr=4433221103000000,0000000000000000 mfi0: 474 (boot + 49s/0x0020/info) - Controller operating temperature within normal range, full operation restored mfi0: 475 (581772985s/0x0020/info) - Time established as 06/08/18 11:36:25; (50 seconds since power on) pci0: <simple comms> at device 22.0 (no driver attached) pci0: <simple comms> at device 22.1 (no driver attached) ahci0: <Intel Sunrise Point (RAID) AHCI SATA controller> port 0xf050-0xf057,0xf040-0xf043,0xf020-0xf03f mem 0xdf814000-0xdf815fff,0xdf818000-0xdf8180ff,0xdf817000-0xdf8177ff at device 23.0 on pci0 ahci0: AHCI v1.31 with 8 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier not supported ahcich0: <AHCI channel> at channel 0 on ahci0 ahcich1: <AHCI channel> at channel 1 on ahci0 ahcich2: <AHCI channel> at channel 2 on ahci0 ahcich3: <AHCI channel> at channel 3 on ahci0 ahcich4: <AHCI channel> at channel 4 on ahci0 ahcich5: <AHCI channel> at channel 5 on ahci0 ahciem0: <AHCI enclosure management bridge> on ahci0 pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 28.0 on pci0 pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3 vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xdd000000-0xddffffff,0xde820000-0xde823fff,0xde000000-0xde7fffff at device 0.0 on pci3 pci3: <processor> at device 0.1 (no driver attached) pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 28.5 on pci0 pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4 igb4: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 2.5.3-k> port 0xc000-0xc01f mem 0xdf600000-0xdf67ffff,0xdf680000-0xdf683fff at device 0.0 on pci4 igb4: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors igb4: Ethernet address: 90:1b:0e:d3:53:23 igb4: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0 igb4: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1 igb4: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2 igb4: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3 igb4: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024 pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 28.6 on pci0 pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5 igb5: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 2.5.3-k> port 0xd000-0xd01f mem 0xdf700000-0xdf77ffff,0xdf780000-0xdf783fff at device 0.0 on pci5 igb5: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors igb5: Ethernet address: 90:1b:0e:d3:57:24 igb5: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0 igb5: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1 igb5: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2 igb5: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3 igb5: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024 pcib6: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 29.0 on pci0 pci6: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib6 igb6: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 2.5.3-k> mem 0xdec00000-0xdecfffff,0xded8c000-0xded8ffff at device 0.0 on pci6 igb6: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors igb6: Ethernet address: b4:96:91:13:29:70 igb6: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0 igb6: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1 igb6: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2 igb6: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3 igb6: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024 igb7: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 2.5.3-k> mem 0xdeb00000-0xdebfffff,0xded88000-0xded8bfff at device 0.1 on pci6 igb7: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors igb7: Ethernet address: b4:96:91:13:29:71 igb7: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0 igb7: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1 igb7: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2 igb7: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3 igb7: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024 igb8: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 2.5.3-k> mem 0xdea00000-0xdeafffff,0xded84000-0xded87fff at device 0.2 on pci6 igb8: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors igb8: Ethernet address: b4:96:91:13:29:72 igb8: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0 igb8: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1 igb8: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2 igb8: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3 igb8: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024 igb9: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 2.5.3-k> mem 0xde900000-0xde9fffff,0xded80000-0xded83fff at device 0.3 on pci6 igb9: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors igb9: Ethernet address: b4:96:91:13:29:73 igb9: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0 igb9: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1 igb9: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2 igb9: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3 igb9: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024 isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 pci0: <memory> at device 31.2 (no driver attached) acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0 uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0: console (115200,n,8,1) ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0 est1: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu1 est2: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu2 est3: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu3 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec nvme cam probe device init ugen0.1: <0x8086 XHCI root HUB> at usbus0 mfid0 on mfi0 mfid0: 953344MB (1952448512 sectors) RAID volume (no label) is optimal uhub0: <0x8086 XHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0 uhub0: 26 ports with 26 removable, self powered ugen0.2: <American Megatrends Inc. Virtual Keyboard and Mouse> at usbus0 ukbd0 on uhub0 ukbd0: <Keyboard Interface> on usbus0 kbd1 at ukbd0 ses0 at ahciem0 bus 0 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 ses0: <AHCI SGPIO Enclosure 1.00 0001> SEMB S-E-S 2.00 device cd0 at ahcich5 bus 0 scbus5 target 0 lun 0 ses0: SEMB SES Device cd0: <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GUD0N PF02> Removable CD-ROM SCSI device cd0: Serial Number B7ARVC1211252 cd0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA6, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 8192bytes) cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present - tray closed Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/gptid/f21e550d-4955-11e8-b400-b49691133240 [rw]... CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v6 @ 3.00GHz (3000.10-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x906e9 Family=0x6 Model=0x9e Stepping=9 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x7ffafbff<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,SDBG,FMA,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND> AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM> AMD Features2=0x121<LAHF,ABM,Prefetch> Structured Extended Features=0x29c6fbf<FSGSBASE,TSCADJ,SGX,BMI1,HLE,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,RTM,NFPUSG,MPX,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,CLFLUSHOPT,PROCTRACE> Structured Extended Features3=0xc000000<IBPB,STIBP> XSAVE Features=0xf<XSAVEOPT,XSAVEC,XINUSE,XSAVES> VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics tun1: changing name to 'ovpns1' tun2: changing name to 'ovpns2' tun3: changing name to 'ovpns3' ovpns2: link state changed to UP ovpns1: link state changed to UP ovpns3: link state changed to UP pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled igb4: link state changed to UP igb9: promiscuous mode enabled igb9: promiscuous mode disabled -
Hmm, is the firewall actually idle? No traffic at all?
I'd have to guess this is related to your raid setup since I don't have anything similar to test against.
The mfi device is the highest interrupt load other than the cpu timers. I could be tickling the cpus sufficiently to cause that.If you;re not actually seeing an issue there I doubt it's a problem.
You could move /tmp and /var to RAM drives as a test which prevent drive writes. That may reduce both interrupt loads.
Steve
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@stephenw10 said in High CPU usage on interrupt processing:
Hmm, is the firewall actually idle? No traffic at all?
Yeah, firewall is idle. The server is located in a small subnet and no one is currently connected to it.
There’s some occasional broadcast traffic (e.g. DHCP requests) form other devices/servers on the network, but I doubt it can cause any trouble.I think you’re right about RAID.
I moved /tmp and /var to RAM but still there’s a lot of interrupts on mfi0 device, yet gstat shows no disk IO except some rare writes.I’ll try remotely tinker with RAID-related settings in BIOS, maybe I find something I missed.
Thank you for suggestions!
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