Re: [RPI 3B+ / TSO / lan78xx ]

[RENARD Pierre-Francois <pfrenard@gmail.com>]

Hello all

I am facing an issue related to Raspberry PI 3B+ and onboard ethernet card.

When doing a huge transfer (more than 1GB) in a row, transfer hanges and 
failed after a few minutes.


I have two ways to reproduce this issue


using NFS (v3 or v4)

     dd if=/dev/zero of=/NFSPATH/file bs=4M count=1000 status=progress


     we can see that at some point dd hangs and becomes non interrutible 
(no way to ctrl-c it or kill it)

     after afew minutes, dd dies and a bunch of NFS server not 
responding / NFS server is OK are seens into the journal


Using SCP

     dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/file bs=4M count=1000

     scp /tmp/file user@server:/directory


     scp hangs after 1GB and after a few minutes scp is failing with 
message "client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe lostconnection"




It appears, this is a known bug relatted to TCP Segmentation Offload & 
Selective Acknowledge.

disabling this TSO (ethtool -K eth0 tso off & ethtool -K eth0 gso off) 
solves the issue.

A patch has been created to disable the feature by default by the 
raspberry team and is by default applied wihtin raspbian.

comment from the patch :

/* TSO seems to be having some issue with Selective Acknowledge (SACK) that
  * results in lost data never being retransmitted.
  * Disable it by default now, but adds a module parameter to enable it for
  * debug purposes (the full cause is not currently understood).
  */


For reference you can find

a link to the issue I created yesterday : 
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/3395

links to raspberry dev team : 
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2482 & 
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2449



If you need me to test things, or give you more informations, I ll be 
pleased to help.



Fox


PS : this is a resent in with plain text because vger rejected the first 
one with html formating ...:)