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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:56:18 +0200
From:      Michael Tuexen <tuexen@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= <royger@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 3fade68cfdf9 - main - iflib: accurately count bytes/segments for TSO
Message-ID:  <B7C70056-8917-4ED6-BDCA-001F78A37FFB@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <aeXjUNlDR029ijWB@macbook.local>
References:  <69e26f4a.346e1.31c510c2@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <aeXjUNlDR029ijWB@macbook.local>

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> On 20. Apr 2026, at 10:26, Roger Pau Monné <royger@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 05:35:06PM +0000, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>> The branch main has been updated by gallatin:
>> 
>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3fade68cfdf95ee0b517b5d69b270bd8da633404
>> 
>> commit 3fade68cfdf95ee0b517b5d69b270bd8da633404
>> Author:     Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@FreeBSD.org>
>> AuthorDate: 2026-04-17 15:45:22 +0000
>> Commit:     Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@FreeBSD.org>
>> CommitDate: 2026-04-17 17:34:27 +0000
>> 
>>    iflib: accurately count bytes/segments for TSO
>> 
>>    When using software based ifnet counters, iflib has not factored
>>    TSO into account when reporting the segments and bytes sent.
>>    So it will underreport NIC bandwidth by a small percent,
>>    and will undercount sent segments by a large factor.
>>    Fix this by calculating the number of added segments the NIC
>>    will send, and add header size multiplied by that number
>>    to arrive at a correct accounting of segments and bytes sent.
>>    This makes these software counters directly comparable to
>>    hardware counters.
>> 
>>    Doing this requires moving the calculation into iflib_encap() where
>>    we have already parsed the packet and know the header size, MSS, etc.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This causes a reliable crash on my box when I attempt to ssh into it:
> 
> panic: Assertion mp != NULL && *mp != NULL failed at /usr/src/sys/net/iflib.c:3922
> cpuid = 11
> time = 1776673321
> KDB: stack backtrace:
> db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x2b/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf3e0
> vpanic() at vpanic+0x136/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf510
> panic() at panic+0x43/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf570
> iflib_txq_drain() at iflib_txq_drain+0x429/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf5f0
> drain_ring_lockless() at drain_ring_lockless+0x8a/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf640
> ifmp_ring_enqueue() at ifmp_ring_enqueue+0x332/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf690
> iflib_if_transmit() at iflib_if_transmit+0x273/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf710
> bridge_enqueue() at bridge_enqueue+0x214/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf760
> bridge_output() at bridge_output+0x10a/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf7b0
> ether_output() at ether_output+0x689/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf840
> ip_output() at ip_output+0x183d/frame 0xfffffe0115bbf960
> tcp_default_output() at tcp_default_output+0x21d8/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfb30
> tcp_usr_send() at tcp_usr_send+0x5d0/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfbe0
> sosend_generic_locked() at sosend_generic_locked+0x59b/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfc90
> sosend_generic() at sosend_generic+0x61/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfce0
> sousrsend() at sousrsend+0x79/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfd40
> dofilewrite() at dofilewrite+0x81/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfd90
> sys_write() at sys_write+0x127/frame 0xfffffe0115bbfe00
> amd64_syscall() at amd64_syscall+0x169/frame 0xfffffe0115bbff30
> fast_syscall_common() at fast_syscall_common+0xf8/frame 0xfffffe0115bbff30
> --- syscall (4, FreeBSD ELF64, write), rip = 0x297fd795023a, rsp = 0x297fccb77d98, rbp = 0x297fccb77dc0 ---
> KDB: enter: panic
> [ thread pid 3093 tid 100634 ]
> Stopped at      kdb_enter+0x33: movq    $0,0x15dd302(%rip)
> db>
> 
> My network config is:
> 
> ifconfig_igc0="DHCP"
> cloned_interfaces="bridge0"
> ifconfig_bridge0="addm igc0"
Can you check if
https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=cca22c36c306dfabe13b1d1de10e8d27ef3c3bce <https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=cca22c36c306dfabe13b1d1de10e8d27ef3c3bce>;
fixes the issue for you?

Best regards
Michael
> 
> Thanks, Roger.
> 



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