Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:31:37 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_bge upload stalls repeatedly (Was: 8-STABLE outgoing scp stalling frequently) Message-ID: <20100204213137.GA9431@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20100204192315.GN5901@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: <20100202193616.GA16953@osiris.chen.org.nz> <20100202212029.GA5295@asgard.cs.uoi.gr> <20100203225255.GB14315@osiris.chen.org.nz> <20100204012503.GK5901@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20100204020015.GA17301@osiris.chen.org.nz> <20100204192315.GN5901@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
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On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:23:15AM -0800, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:00:15PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 05:25:03PM -0800, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
[...]
> > > I'm not sure but recently added code to support TSO may cause the
> > > issue. Would you show me verbose boot output(only bge(4) related
> > > one)?
> >
> > bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x00a002> mem 0xf1bf0000-0xf1bfffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci9
> > bge0: Reserved 0x10000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xf1bf0000
> > bge0: adjust device control 0x2000 -> 0x5000
> > bge0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (1 supported)
> > bge0: using IRQ 258 for MSI
> > bge0: CHIP ID 0x0000a002; ASIC REV 0x0a; CHIP REV 0xa0; PCI-E
> > bge0: Disabling fastboot
> > bge0: Disabling fastboot
> > miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
> > bge0: bpf attached
> > bge0: Ethernet address: 00:1d:09:d2:d1:9e
> > bge0: [MPSAFE]
> > bge0: [FILTER]
> > bge0: Disabling fastboot
> > bge0: Disabling fastboot
> > bge0: link UP
> >
> > >To rule out possible TSO issue, disable TSO and try it
> > > again(#ifconfig bge0 -tso). Does it make any difference?
> >
> > Yup, it sure does! With a TSO disabled, my upload and download speeds
> > are pretty much symmetrical at a decent 10MB/s.
> >
>
> Hmm, that means TSO was broken on your controller. Because BCM5755
> or newer controllers have no known TSO issues I don't know why the
> controller fails on TSO. Very recent controllers use new TSO format
> but I don't think your controller is one of them and FreeBSD has no
> support for these controllers anyway.
> Would you show me the output of "pciconf -lcv" of your bge(4)
> controller?
bge0@pci0:9:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01fe1028 chip=0x167314e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
cap 01[48] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0
cap 03[50] = VPD
cap 09[58] = vendor (length 120)
cap 05[e8] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
cap 10[d0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(128) link x1(x1)
This is on a Dell Latitude D830 Laptop.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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