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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:45:43 -0500
From:      Gregory Wright <gwright@antiope.com>
To:        Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: excessive TCP dulplicate acks revisted
Message-ID:  <17995F62-7E9B-42E3-A7FA-30143C704C34@antiope.com>
In-Reply-To: <473780DB.2040705@freebsd.org>
References:  <46B41421-3112-40C6-84D9-094FA771F93E@antiope.com> <4735CE3A.7020905@freebsd.org> <C621C4E4-4230-4658-B668-A0612B632565@antiope.com> <473780DB.2040705@freebsd.org>

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On Nov 11, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> Gregory Wright wrote:
>> On Nov 10, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>>>
>> Hi Andre,
>> I also took a look at the bge (4) driver in 7.0-BETA2.  As far as  
>> I can tell,
>> it does not support TSO (there is no ioctl supporting TSO enable/ 
>> disable
>> as there is for the em(4) driver).
>
>> Might the chip --- a BCM5704_B0 --- not be completely  
>> initialized?  This
>> might explain why the machine with the BCM5714_B3 chips works, while
>> the other machine shows the duplicate ACK bug.
>
> Perhaps.  Do you see the duplicate ACKs in a tcpdump on both the  
> sender
> and the receiver?  If you see it on the sender too, then it must be a
> bug in our network stack or the driver (by requeuing the same packet
> over and over again).
>
> -- 
> Andre

The logs show that the duplicate ACKs are generated only by the
receiver.  I suspect a bug in the driver, perhaps the ACK packet
is not being removed from the TX buffer ring.  Examining the transmitted
packets should be enough to rule out a network stack problem.  Is
there any debugging infrastructure I can use or do I just have to
hack in on my own?

Greg




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