Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:46:30 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: "Andre Oppermann" <andre@freebsd.org> Cc: Ian FREISLICH <if@hetzner.co.za>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TSO, SMP and the em driver. Message-ID: <2a41acea0609120846i32fd682wd834e0373c23d557@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4506BE2C.1050903@freebsd.org> References: <E1GN5FA-00085C-CJ@hetzner.co.za> <4506BE2C.1050903@freebsd.org>
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On 9/12/06, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote: > Ian FREISLICH wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've noticed that after an apparently random period of time something > > goes wierd with my networking. A tcpdump shows traffic is recieved, > > but trussing a daemon (sshd for instance) shows the packets are not > > making it that far. Also, no packets are transmitted either. > > > > Here's an ifconfig of the interface while it doesn't transmit or > > recieve packets, note the OACTIVE: > > OACTIVE means the interface is stuck. This looks like a bug in the > em(4) driver. I've copied Jack Vogel, the driver maintainer from Intel, > into this email. > > -- > Andre > > > em0: flags=8c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > > options=3cb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,POLLING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6> > > inet 41.204.193.40 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 41.204.193.47 > > ether 00:04:23:d4:12:2e > > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > > status: active > > > > If I disable and re-enable TSO, the interface cames back, but > > probably because of an interface reset. It comes back without the > > OACTIVE flag and then all works well for some time. > > > > Here's the pciconf output for the ethernet device. > > > > em0@pci3:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10798086 chip=0x10798086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > > device = '82546EB Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller' > > class = network > > subclass = ethernet > > > > So far, it hasn't happened again with TSO disabled over a period > > where it happened twice. Let me know if there's any debugging I > > can do for you. Interestingly, I have 4 more of these dual NICs > > running on the same version of the source without ony problems, but > > the working cards are on UP machines. Hmm, so if memory serves Linux disallows TSO when you are only at 100Mb, I dont recall why, I will have to look into that and perhaps have that same limitation in our driver. Any other data you can give me? Cheers, Jackhome | help
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