From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 22:20:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF85106564A for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:20:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: from web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.97.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B51528FC13 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:20:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 81717 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Jan 2009 22:20:39 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=Q3MsWrjhTnnp4kmbNcyDh9oa6kYw+YZuJ1Nrj2zeWI6/hj8xYksfFVibhvcktRCME8S7OQs6/cyDmqF/0ng1QYAyieykWdzsnwdHg5tsPhivGUiWFEUQ0lHRn8scKKd1s9vGdcnhzPFFzTC5/9cLsHPyiVO3/QU0kuDBwUrwHlc=; X-YMail-OSG: rcZz.yQVM1nB5jEp55dd73oMsdmni4m1yRCgA2GVYvCMuC9ekDMdeFDv1bD1pAmVmrwBWKgjeD.tLhuWVQZE1bDCyrsSTR6UgD310lcmyVGoa8RLeFGGdQiWB4lbTni2.wxe5a4bRMSaEx8eNWfnfaFlxLYKt2Gj7s_OAfZcNosgFhGoo1n2buabmU7T198- Received: from [98.242.222.229] by web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:20:39 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:20:39 -0800 (PST) From: Barney Cordoba To: Jack Vogel In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0901251231w5dc6b739k420d41e8d4b7f3d7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <936475.81653.qm@web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with ixgbe X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: barney_cordoba@yahoo.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:20:41 -0000 --- On Sun, 1/25/09, Jack Vogel wrote: > From: Jack Vogel > Subject: Re: Problems with ixgbe > To: barney_cordoba@yahoo.com > Cc: current@freebsd.org > Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 3:31 PM > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Barney Cordoba > wrote: > > > I'm trying to fire up a couple of 10g cards (2 > different cards with 82598 > > NICs) hooked up back to back, and I'm having > nothing but problems. I haven't > > gotten the latest version 1.5.6 driver to work under > any circumstances. I've > > gotten the 1.2.16 driver that came in 7.0-RELEASE to > work once on fresh > > boots on each machine, but then when rebooting one of > the machines nothing > > could be done to get them to talk again. I did do > quite a bit of testing so > > it doesn't seem that the cards are faulty. Its > just wholly unreliable. It > > seems that they just don't transmit the frames > properly. netstat -i shows > > outgoing packets but internal hw.ix.0.stats show none > transmitted when > > enabled. I've tried disabling MSI-X, using just 1 > queue, all with the same > > result. > > > > I don't have a 7.1 or 8 machine to test with at > this location, so I don't > > know if there is something in 7.0-RELEASE that just > won't work with these > > cards. I don't want to beat my head too badly, or > spend time debugging if > > its just not going to work. > > > > First, should 1.5.6 work in 7.0? The README indicates > it should. It makes > > little sense debugging an old driver. > > > > > > Barney > > > > > > > > > Barney, > > You never give specifics on your failures. The 1.5.6 driver > should work, > however > there is newer code, I just have been too busy internally > to get it checked > in yet. > > Give me more exact details, what hardware, how is it hooked > up, etc etc... > > Jack Ok. It doesn't transmit anything. I've tracked it down to bus_dmamap_load_mbuf_sg() failing, which is caused when reserve_bounce_pages() fails. It seems there are no bounce pages available. Barney