Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 07:34:25 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 219428] em network driver broken in current Message-ID: <bug-219428-2472-wDaELqJ0ZL@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-219428-2472@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-219428-2472@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D219428 O. Hartmann <ohartmann@walstatt.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ohartmann@walstatt.org --- Comment #3 from O. Hartmann <ohartmann@walstatt.org> --- This is what I've send to the mailing list recently and I simply copy-and-paste'd it here for convenience to document the problem, which is still present and serious. The problem has gone worse and reliefed since the introduction of IFLIB, to say: recent CURRENT recovers itself now after bei= ng "dead" for more than a minute (but loosing then connections due to timeouts, i.e. ssh) and in now more frequently occuring cases getting worse in terms = of loosing the device: there was no known to me method to revive the NIC but rebooting - which is desastrous in some situations. [...] Since the introduction of IFLIB, I have big trouble with especially a certa= in type of NIC, namely formerly known igb and em. The worst device is an Intel NIC known as i217-LM em0@pci0:0:25:0: class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x11ed1734 chip=3D0x153a808= 6 rev=3D0x05 hdr=3D0x00 vendor =3D 'Intel Corporation' device =3D 'Ethernet Connection I217-LM' class =3D network subclass =3D ethernet bar [10] =3D type Memory, range 32, base 0xfb300000, size 131072, ena= bled bar [14] =3D type Memory, range 32, base 0xfb339000, size 4096, enabl= ed bar [18] =3D type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xf020, size 32, enabled This NIC is widely used by Fujitsu's workstations CELSIUS M740 and the fate would have it, that I have to use one of these. When syncing data over the network from the workstation to an older C2D/bce based server via NFSv4, since introduction of IFLIB the connection to the N= FS get stuck and I receive on the console messages like em0: TX(0) desc avail =3D 1024, pidx =3D 0 em0: TX(0) desc avail =3D 42, pidx =3D 985 Hitting "Ctrl-T" on the terminal doing the sync via "rsync", I see then this message: load: 0.01 cmd: rsync 68868 [nfsaio] 395.68r 4.68u 4.64s 0% 3288k (just for the record) Server and client(s) are on 12-CURRENT: ~ FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #38 r318285:= Mon May 15 12:27:29 CEST 2017 amd64, customised kernels and "netmap" enabled (j= ust for the record if that matters). In the past, I was able to revive the connection by simply putting the NIC = down and then up again and while I had running a ping as a trace indication of t= he state of the NIC, I got very often ping: sendto: No buffer space available Well, today I checked via dmesg the output to gather again those messages a= nd realised that the dmesg is garbled: [...] nfs nfs servnnfs servefs r server19 2.19162n.fs snerver fs1 s9nfs s2er.nfs server er192.168.0.31:/pool/packages: not responding v er 192.168.0.31ver :/po1ol/packages9: 2.168.0.31:/pool/packagesn: noot responding t <6>n fs serverespondinngf s server 192.168.1rn nfs server 192.168.0.31:/pool/packages: not1 responding 9 2.168.1f7s 0.31:/pool/packagenfs sesrver 19serv2er .168.0.31:/poo: not respolnding / packages: not responding nfs server 19192.168.0.31:/pool/pa2c.k168.0.31:a/gpserver ne1s92.168.0.31:/pool/pac: knot respaof1s68 gs.e17rve8r.2 3192.168.0.31:/pool/packa1:/pool/packages: not responding o goes: nl/packag= es: not responding o t responding nfs server 192.168.0.31:/poes: ol/packages: nfns server 192.168.0.31:/pool/paot responding c kages: not respondinnfs server n192.1f68.0.31:/pool/packagess: ndi server 192.168.0.31:/pool/packages: not responding [...] Earlier this year after introduction of IFLIB, I checked out servers equipt= ed with Intels very popular i350T2v2 NIC and I had similar problems when dd'ing large files over NFSv4 (ZFS backed) from a client (em0, a client/consumer g= rade older NIC from 2010, forgot its ID, towards server with i350, but the server side got stuck with the messages seen similar to those reported with the i217-LM). Since my department uses lots of those server grade NICs, I will = swap the i217 with a i350T2 and check again. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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