"bge intr handler" thread using 100% CPU

[Morgul]

One of the two "bge intr handler" threads on kernel_team uses 100% CPU on the CPU core it's assigned to, and it never stops that high CPU usage.

Asking on the IRC channel, I was told bge means "Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet", and that's the network card I have. It's embedded on my motherboard, and it has two ethernet ports (I guess that's why there's two such threads, one per port/network interface).

But aside from that core using 100% CPU, everything else seems to work fine, including the Internet connection through ethernet on those motherboard ports. I can't tell if it's working slower than it should, but it works perfectly alright. So please, don't blacklist this device :) It's the only one I have for network access on this computer, and it works.

The Haiku version I'm using it up-to-date R1/beta5 x86_64, hrev57937+118

Device information on listdev, it appears twice:

device Network controller (Ethernet controller) [2|0|0]
  vendor 14e4: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
  device 16b1: NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe

Related listimage entry:

 7516 0xffffffff82639000 0xffffffff82666000     0          0 /boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/net/broadcom570x

[Morgul]

syslog extract

[Morgul]

I'm running Haiku on real hardware, by the way, it's not a virtual machine.

[waddlesplash]

Please also include the PCI configuration information from the syslog for this device.

[waddlesplash]

I can't immediately see where or how this would be happening. Can you run profile -a -f for a few seconds, then Ctrl+C it and look for the "bge intr handler" thread in the output, and copy it here?

[waddlesplash]

Please see if hrev58193 improves things here.

[Morgul]

PCI information from Syslog

[Morgul]

Replying to waddlesplash:

Please also include the PCI configuration information from the syslog for this device.

I have attached it, on syslog_pci.txt

[Morgul]

Replying to waddlesplash:

I can't immediately see where or how this would be happening. Can you run profile -a -f for a few seconds, then Ctrl+C it and look for the "bge intr handler" thread in the output, and copy it here?

Sure, there you go:

profiling results for thread "bge intr handler" (183):
  tick interval:  1000 us
  total ticks:    9979 (9979000 us)
  expected ticks: 10278 (missed 299)
  unknown ticks:  9979 (9979000 us, 100.00%)
  dropped ticks:  0 (0 us,   0.00%)
  samples/tick:   0.0
  no functions were hit

profiling results for thread "bge intr handler" (184):
  tick interval:  1000 us
  total ticks:    1 (1000 us)
  expected ticks: 1 (missed 0)
  unknown ticks:  1 (1000 us, 100.00%)
  dropped ticks:  0 (0 us,   0.00%)
  samples/tick:   0.0
  no functions were hit

[Morgul]

Replying to waddlesplash:

Please see if hrev58193 improves things here.

Actually, yes! It seems it does! I upgraded my system to the latest nightly, hrev58198, and now all CPU threads are idle!

[waddlesplash]

Well, the profile data is useless, but good that the change fixed things for you!