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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:46:56 -0700
From:      "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To:        "Andre Oppermann" <andre@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 10G and socket alloc failure
Message-ID:  <2a41acea0707190146q2fcc5d9cq865e9571cd6104e3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <469F1D32.2040700@freebsd.org>
References:  <2a41acea0707181152r4c662b00tf1be7b6b4dce74f1@mail.gmail.com> <2a41acea0707181542q23d36733o339448ad86f480cb@mail.gmail.com> <469F1D32.2040700@freebsd.org>

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On 7/19/07, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Jack Vogel wrote:
> > While testing out the ixgbe driver we've observed this failure in the stack
> > code, here is the info:
> >
> > The test engineer is using iperf, typically with 16 threads. If the
> > driver is using
> > either legacy or MSI interrupts we will see broken pipes, in dmesg its
> > due to sonewconn() failing in syncache_socket().
> >
> > Whats interesting is that when I have multiple RX queues configured and
> > using MSI/X this doesnt happen, at least not very often.
> >
> > It does not seem to hurt performance horribly, iperf just spawns another
> > thread, but I was wondering if there is some underlying tuneable I dont
> > know about that would stop this from happening??
> >
> > And any theory about why it doesnt happen with multiple queues?
>
> Do you see any messages in syslog regarding syncache?

Yes, the messages are what are emitted in the code i cited above,
I could get the dmesg output if that would provide any more help.
I figured the point at which it is failing is pretty specific and someone
might know just from that what it was :)

Jack



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