From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 07:44:37 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 63E75F8; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:44:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cu01176a.smtpx.saremail.com (cu01176a.smtpx.saremail.com [195.16.150.151]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FA762275; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.2.2] (izaro.sarenet.es [192.148.167.11]) by proxypop03.sare.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 429329DD121; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:35:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Unusable Emulex "oce" driver version in -STABLE, 9.3 and CURRENT Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Borja Marcos In-Reply-To: <8D93EDF7-AC0E-4707-AC62-55CBD5F3358D@sarenet.es> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:35:26 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <8D93EDF7-AC0E-4707-AC62-55CBD5F3358D@sarenet.es> To: Borja Marcos X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Stable Stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:44:37 -0000 On Jun 17, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Borja Marcos wrote: >=20 > Hello, >=20 > This should be fixed before the release of 9.3, and of course as soon = as possible for the rest of the branches. >=20 > At least under 10-STABLE the "oce" driver can cause a panic when = there's a lot of network traffic. I have been able to reproduce it > using "iperf". Sometimes the panic can be triggered within seconds of = starting an iperf test. >=20 > There's a new driver available for download on the Emulex site, = version 10.0.747.0, and it works perfectly. The source code compiles = perfectly > under FreeBSD 10-STABLE (at least recent versions since April) and the = kernel module loads without trouble. >=20 > There's a bug report covering this but seems to be forgotten :/ >=20 > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D183391 In my case, the problem manifests itself running 10. Emulex provides a = more recent driver which compiles perfectly and works perfectly (if we = can safely assume that a weekend saturating a couple of interfaces = runnning benchmarks with no glitches is a good hint). I am now installing the latest beta of 9.3 to see if I can reproduce the = panic. I will follow-up in a couple of hours if possible. Borja.