From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 17:01:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6FF1065675 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from smtp130.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp130.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.53.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 793B98FC13 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 28548 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2008 17:01:12 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Received:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Subject:From:To:Cc:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:Importance; b=4VWlLwOP4yVTNqgeYuqPkpbjlDw7956UnjaECj+UvFEmDrHkgrzT9BGvgWRyhtfiohb3qM07WlE/E3DKyXFODrvm6p57JFy+aPBZ+sqob+d4aepCEsH0WWKc1zvux69Ck1iT1ttG939QZgZUi65iLRnON+0sxu0suG4IY+8l328= ; Received: from unknown (HELO wettoast.dyndns.org) (mikej@99.227.98.203 with login) by smtp130.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 2008 17:01:09 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: v58eFMUVM1kXEAnX8tnMBnxNZDU4dzHMFKP.Nd0wwhgwnVDEXv_xjkLYyaK3ZiRKOg-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Received: from 38.99.187.34 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mikej) by wettoast.dyndns.org with HTTP; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:01:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20081210160325.GA72838@mr-happy.com> References: <20081210160325.GA72838@mr-happy.com> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:01:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike Jakubik" To: "Jeff Blank" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bce(4) and rx errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:01:14 -0000 On Wed, December 10, 2008 11:03 am, Jeff Blank wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 04:59:26PM +0200, Vlad GALU wrote: >> I have an application pulling about 220Kpps from a bce(4) card >> (details below). At what seems to be random times, errors start >> showing up on that interface (I'm watching it with netstat -w1 -I), so >> about 10% of the initial 220Kpps is reported as errors. > > I'm also seeing a pretty steady stream of errors on both bce > interfaces in a Dell PowerEdge 2950 III. In my case, the source > is RELENG_7_1 from ~14:00 UTC yesterday (9 Dec). Throughput does not > seem to be affected. "sysctl -a | egrep -i 'bce.*err'" yields all > zeroes, for whatever that's worth. See the "RELENG_7_1: bce driver change generating too much interrupts ?" thread. This problem as surfaced since the recent bce driver changes.