Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:04:56 -0800 From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>, Jack Vogel <jack.vogel@intel.com> Subject: Re: Bad interaction between 82599 hardware RSC and VLANs Message-ID: <CAFOYbc=ANdsMGXNGvjmkr=ecKVUQhFDDiK0%2Bvga_XB7m0JyB3Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <10A2858D-8DA8-45C4-B9A6-00CFA172404F@averesystems.com> References: <10A2858D-8DA8-45C4-B9A6-00CFA172404F@averesystems.com>
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Hey Andrew,
Not heard of this before, but I'll check around.
Jack
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com>wrote:
> Hello Jack,
> I'm seeing an issue on 82599 controllers. When hardware RSC is used,
> large VLAN packets arrive without the VP bit set, even though the vtag in
> the descriptor is correct. It totally kills the receive performance.
> Turning off hardware RSC in the driver (falling back to software LRO)
> works fine, as does turning off LRO entirely.
>
> I've worked around the problem for now by overriding the VP bit if
> ixgbe_rxeof() finds a valid vtag in the descriptor.
>
> Have you seen this before?
>
> It's not in the latest errata. It almost seems to be the opposite of what
> Ryan reported in November 2010 ("82599 receiving packets with vlan tag=0
> (vlan strip problem)?").
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
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