From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 19:27:50 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 7F1421065675 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:27:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dudu@dudu.ro) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC848FC1A for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:27:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dudu@dudu.ro) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so298699yxb.13 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:27:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.219.18 with SMTP id r18mr2670255ybg.89.1228937269337; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:27:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.151.68.11 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:27:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:27:49 +0200 From: "Vlad GALU" To: "Mike Jakubik" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081210160325.GA72838@mr-happy.com> Cc: Jeff Blank , 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 19:27:50 -0000 On 12/10/08, Vlad GALU wrote: > On 12/10/08, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > 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. > > > Thanks Mike, I'll give it a shot. Indeed, the errors seem to have gone away after rolling back the driver, as Xin Li suggested in another thread. Sorry for the noise! -- ~/.signature: no such file or directory