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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:07:40 -0700
From:      Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MSI-X + em(4) = Refresh mbufs: hdr dmamap load failure - 22
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You have header split on?? I've not seen this before so something odd
is going on.

Jack


On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Juli Mallett <jmallett@freebsd.org> wrote=
:

> All,
>
> On both stable/9 and trunk I see that with one of either the 82571EB
> or 82574L I am flooded with messages in the form of:
>
> Refresh mbufs: hdr dmamap load failure - 22
>
> If I disable msix, then the messages go away.  I am not sure why msix
> vs. non-msix would matter in this case unless in the msix case there's
> some kind of case of spurious interrupts causing em_rxeof to be called
> without any packets available.  If that happens then perhaps
> e1000_rx_unrefreshed() is called when no buffers have been processed
> and then em_refresh_mbufs wrongly refreshes the whole ring?
>
> This seems like it would be a problem because the
> bus_dmamap_load_mbuf_sg code is called unconditionally, even when a
> new mbuf isn't being allocated.  In that case, the mapping already
> exists.  Wouldn't it be necessary to unload and then reload the mbuf?
> So either it's a bug that em_refresh_mbufs is being called at all, or
> it's naively reusing mbufs in a way that actually guarantees an error,
> right?  Also, in the case where it frees, only m_free is called =97 is
> there never a case where that should be an m_freem?  I can imagine
> some, but they are likely impossible with the receive path of the
> driver.  (I don't know for sure because the receive path and the mbuf
> refresh code keep changing and I've been unable to keep up.)
>
> I don't know which part it is, of course, because I don't know what
> port it's coming from.  Like three other printfs in the driver where
> which device is being used matters tremendously, it uses a bare printf
> and not a device_printf.  I could modify the driver, but for now
> disabling msix is easier than continuing to load new kernels to try to
> debug the problem.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?  Has anyone further investigated the
> problem?  Is there a patch floating around and I just haven't found
> the right search terms?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Juli.
>
> PS: Yes, I know this is kind of a crappy bug report, sorry.  I've had
> a limited amount of time to investigate so far, and don't want to
> delay reporting it until I am able to get more time with the
> problematic hardware.
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