From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 13:31:10 2010 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 DD3581065674 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 13:31:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A06128FC15 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 13:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mdt-xp.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4RDV9rX001502; Thu, 27 May 2010 09:31:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <201005271331.o4RDV9rX001502@lava.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:31:03 -0400 To: pyunyh@gmail.com From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <20100526164136.GA9371@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: <201005261630.o4QGURLi097090@lava.sentex.ca> <20100526164136.GA9371@michelle.cdnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ale stats (AR8121) 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: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:31:10 -0000 At 12:41 PM 5/26/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: >Anyway I have to ask Atheros what the counter really means. >Thanks for reminding it. If I get some feedback I'll let you know. Thanks! One more question about this NIC. While doing some stress testing as an nfsserver, I did get a few fifo overflows. Is there any tuning that can be done to handle greater loads ? dev.ale.0.%desc: Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe Ethernet dev.ale.0.%driver: ale dev.ale.0.%location: slot=0 function=0 dev.ale.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x1969 device=0x1026 subvendor=0x1043 subdevice=0x8226 class=0x020000 dev.ale.0.%parent: pci4 dev.ale.0.int_rx_mod: 30 dev.ale.0.int_tx_mod: 1000 dev.ale.0.process_limit: 64 dev.ale.0.reset_brk_seq: 0 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_frames: 40750507 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_bcast_frames: 56321 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_mcast_frames: 9 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.pause_frames: 0 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.control_frames: 0 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.crc_errs: 0 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.len_errs: 0 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_octets: 60667019510 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_bcast_octets: 4090260 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.good_mcast_octets: 1220 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.runts: 0 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.fragments: 0 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_64: 96112 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_65_127: 224804 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_128_255: 162357 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_256_511: 6546 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_512_1023: 213983 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_1024_1518: 40088225 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.frames_1519_max: 0 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.trunc_errs: 0 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.fifo_oflows: 87 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.rrs_errs: 0 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.align_errs: 0 dev.ale.0.stats.rx.filtered: 41433 Is -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike