[c-nsp] 7507 GEIP Controller

Masood Ahmad Shah masood at nexlinx.net.pk
Wed Jul 25 18:04:30 EDT 2007


Well, the CPU usage is high even without cable. I started generating CPU
graph and it shows the CPU usage is pretty high after inserting GEIP
controller in. I tried to get "sh stack" picture and according to stats
"Network Interrupt" is being called higher than others. Traffic is being
passed from this interface and there are no CRCs or input errors. 

The question is, how can I check the GEIP controller is faulty or GEIP card?
How can one check that faulty card is causing high cpu load while the card
is working good if we talk about traffic passing out/in from that interface.

Is there any workaround for such issues? What do you suggest upgarding from
12.4 (3a) to 12.4 (16) will have positive impact :)

Anyways once again thanks for your reply.

Regards,
Masood Ahmad Shah


-----Original Message-----
From: Rodney Dunn [mailto:rodunn at cisco.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 2:26 AM
To: Masood Ahmad Shah
Cc: 'Rodney Dunn'; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 7507 GEIP Controller

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:26:46AM +0500, Masood Ahmad Shah wrote:
> Thanks for your reply..I have not tried without cable, I will check it. 
> 
> Does cable effects even if the interface is shutdown?

For packet switching it shouldn't but if the driver is still sending an
interrupt it may. 

> Why I can't see the process taking this high cpu usage while I do show 
> proc cpu etcc.?

Because it's interrupt level work the CPU is doing. We could try profiling
the CPU and see what it says.

It may or may not help.

> 
> Here is the output for show diag, show stacks and show align
> 
> Router#show diag 5 ( this is GEIP controller slot ) Slot 5:
>         Physical slot 5, ~physical slot 0xA, logical slot 5, CBus 1
>         Microcode Status 0x4
>         Master Enable, LED, WCS Loaded
>         Board is analyzed 
>         Pending I/O Status: None
>         EEPROM format version 1
>         GEIP controller, HW rev 2.02, board revision A0
>         Serial number: 27588119  Part number: 73-2167-05
>         Test history: 0x00        RMA number: 00-00-00
>         Flags: cisco 7000 board; 7500 compatible
> 
>         EEPROM contents (hex):
>           0x20: 01 21 02 02 01 A4 F6 17 49 08 77 05 00 00 00 00
>           0x30: 50 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 
>         Slot database information:
>         Flags: 0x4      Insertion time: 0x33C0 (4d00h ago)
> 
>         Controller Memory Size: 128 MBytes DRAM, 4096 KBytes SRAM
> 
>         PA Bay 0 Information:
>                 Gigabit-Ethernet PA, 1 ports
>                 EEPROM format version 1
>                 HW rev 1.01, Board revision A0
>                 Serial number: 29339093  Part number: 73-3144-05
> 
>         --Boot log begin--
> 
> Cisco IOS Software, VIP Software (SVIP-DW-M), Version 12.4(3a), 
> RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2) Technical Support: 
> http://www.cisco.com/techsupport Copyright (c) 1986-2005 by Cisco 
> Systems, Inc.
> Compiled Fri 30-Sep-05 07:50 by hqluong Image text-base: 0x6001104C, 
> data-base: 0x60720000
> 
> Port Statistics for unclassified packets is not turned on.
> 
>         --Boot log end--
> 
> 
> 
> Router# #show stacks
> 
> Minimum process stacks:
>  Free/Size   Name
>  2340/3000   RSP memory size check
> 11280/12000  DHCPD Receive
>  5340/6000   Inspect Init Msg
> 59136/60000  script background loader
>  5224/6000   CDP Protocol
>  5028/6000   Clock Server
> 11004/12000  Router Init
>  3220/12000  Init
>  4184/6000   Update prst
>  4976/6000   DIB error message
>  5152/6000   RADIUS INITCONFIG
>  5188/6000   DRMI Master Reg. Slave Process
>  5136/6000   CEF Reloader
>  5312/6000   MDFS Reload
> 34844/36000  TCP Command
>  5332/6000   BGP Accepter
>  4892/6000   BGP Open
>  2276/3000   Rom Random Update Process
>  9236/12000  IPS SDF Loader
>  8220/12000  Virtual Exec
>  8220/12000  Exec
> 10884/12000  SSH Process
> 
> Interrupt level stacks:
> Level    Called Unused/Size  Name
>   1  2213677378   6892/9000  Network Interrupt
>   2     5585183   7676/9000  Network Status Interrupt
>   3           0   8692/9000  OIR interrupt
>   4           0   9000/9000  PCMCIA Interrupt
>   5      171491   8596/9000  Console Uart
>   6           0   9000/9000  Error Interrupt
>   7    86692017   8604/9000  NMI Interrupt Handler


Get a couple of sh stacks and look at the interrupt level calls and see
which one is going up the most.

It may be a bad card.

> 
> Router# #show align
> 
> No alignment data has been recorded.
> 
> No spurious memory references have been recorded.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Masood Ahmad Shah
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodney Dunn [mailto:rodunn at cisco.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:14 AM
> To: Masood Ahmad Shah
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 7507 GEIP Controller
> 
> What does 'sh diag' say and sh stack and show align.
> 
> It's as if interrupts are getting sent to the RSP for some reason.
> 
> Does the same thing happen if no cables are attached.
> 
> 'sh diag'?
> 
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:47:43AM +0500, Masood Ahmad Shah wrote:
> > I have strange issue with 7507.  I have added a new GEIP controller 
> > into
> it.
> > By adding this GEIP controller the CPU usage has been increased up to
20%.
> > The strange thing is that CPU usage is always normal + 20% and there 
> > is no traffic on this interface ( even if interface is shutdown the 
> > usage remains same ). And if there is traffic it's same J
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I can't see the process taking this high CPU utilization if I look 
> > into CPU usage stats.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > What the heck has happened to this? J
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Here are CPU stats:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Router# #show proc cpu | excl 0.00%__0.00%__0.00%
> > 
> > CPU utilization for five seconds: 15%/13%; one minute: 15%; five
minutes:
> > 13%
> > 
> >  PID Runtime(ms)   Invoked      uSecs   5Sec   1Min   5Min TTY Process 
> > 
> >    5      518320     41974      12348  0.00%  0.11%  0.11%   0 Check
heaps
> > 
> > 
> >   20       66004    924869         71  0.08%  0.01%  0.00%   0 IPC Seat
> > Manager
> > 
> >   22      204088   1466063        139  0.00%  0.03%  0.02%   0 ARP Input
> > 
> > 
> >   31        7080      1609       4400  0.98%  1.44%  0.59%   2 Virtual
> Exec
> > 
> > 
> >   52      117672      5843      20138  0.00%  0.02%  0.00%   0
Per-minute
> > Jobs
> > 
> >   73     3586004  17990635        199  0.82%  0.60%  0.49%   0 IP Input
> > 
> > 
> >  189       38964    213398        182  0.00%  0.01%  0.00%   0 IP SNMP
> > 
> > 
> >  191       56184    104952        535  0.00%  0.01%  0.00%   0 SNMP
ENGINE
> > 
> > 
> >  196      160560   1397067        114  0.08%  0.01%  0.00%   0 BGP
Router
> > 
> > 
> >  197       49200    250208        196  0.00%  0.01%  0.00%   0 BGP I/O
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > IOS version:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > IOS Version 12.4(3a)
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Controller
> > 
> > Router# sh ver | inc GEIP
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 1 GEIP controller (1 GigabitEthernet).
> > 
> > 1 GEIP controller (1 GigabitEthernet)
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Masood Ahmad Shah
> > 
> >  
> > 
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