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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:26:56 +0200
From:      Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= <royger@freebsd.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 3fade68cfdf9 - main - iflib: accurately count bytes/segments for TSO
Message-ID:  <aeXjUNlDR029ijWB@macbook.local>
In-Reply-To: <69e26f4a.346e1.31c510c2@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 05:35:06PM +0000, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by gallatin:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3fade68cfdf95ee0b517b5d69b270bd8da633404
> 
> commit 3fade68cfdf95ee0b517b5d69b270bd8da633404
> Author:     Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2026-04-17 15:45:22 +0000
> Commit:     Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2026-04-17 17:34:27 +0000
> 
>     iflib: accurately count bytes/segments for TSO
>     
>     When using software based ifnet counters, iflib has not factored
>     TSO into account when reporting the segments and bytes sent.
>     So it will underreport NIC bandwidth by a small percent,
>     and will undercount sent segments by a large factor.
>     Fix this by calculating the number of added segments the NIC
>     will send, and add header size multiplied by that number
>     to arrive at a correct accounting of segments and bytes sent.
>     This makes these software counters directly comparable to
>     hardware counters.
>     
>     Doing this requires moving the calculation into iflib_encap() where
>     we have already parsed the packet and know the header size, MSS, etc.

Hello,

This causes a reliable crash on my box when I attempt to ssh into it:

panic: Assertion mp != NULL && *mp != NULL failed at /usr/src/sys/net/iflib.c:3922
cpuid = 11
time = 1776673321
KDB: stack backtrace:
db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x2b/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf3e0
vpanic() at vpanic+0x136/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf510
panic() at panic+0x43/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf570
iflib_txq_drain() at iflib_txq_drain+0x429/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf5f0
drain_ring_lockless() at drain_ring_lockless+0x8a/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf640
ifmp_ring_enqueue() at ifmp_ring_enqueue+0x332/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf690
iflib_if_transmit() at iflib_if_transmit+0x273/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf710
bridge_enqueue() at bridge_enqueue+0x214/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf760
bridge_output() at bridge_output+0x10a/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf7b0
ether_output() at ether_output+0x689/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf840
ip_output() at ip_output+0x183d/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf960
tcp_default_output() at tcp_default_output+0x21d8/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfb30
tcp_usr_send() at tcp_usr_send+0x5d0/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfbe0
sosend_generic_locked() at sosend_generic_locked+0x59b/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfc90
sosend_generic() at sosend_generic+0x61/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfce0
sousrsend() at sousrsend+0x79/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfd40
dofilewrite() at dofilewrite+0x81/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfd90
sys_write() at sys_write+0x127/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfe00
amd64_syscall() at amd64_syscall+0x169/frame 0xfffffe0115bbff30
fast_syscall_common() at fast_syscall_common+0xf8/frame 0xfffffe0115bbff30
--- syscall (4, FreeBSD ELF64, write), rip = 0x297fd795023a, rsp = 0x297fccb77d98, rbp = 0x297fccb77dc0 ---
KDB: enter: panic
[ thread pid 3093 tid 100634 ]
Stopped at      kdb_enter+0x33: movq    $0,0x15dd302(%rip)
db>

My network config is:

ifconfig_igc0="DHCP"
cloned_interfaces="bridge0"
ifconfig_bridge0="addm igc0"

Thanks, Roger.


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