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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: emin ak <eminak71@gmail.com>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@mvista.com>,
	Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gianfar: Fix crashes on RX path (Was Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 19692] New: linux-2.6.36-rc5 crash with gianfar ethernet at full line rate traffic)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:14:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287728048.9059.124.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimakJjwL9v2Ztpce3Xnjb_r5XB=rGoJc9pZKE12@mail.gmail.com>

Le vendredi 22 octobre 2010 à 08:42 +0300, emin ak a écrit :
> Hi Jarek;
> 
> > Maybe for now let's try to get and see this type 1 again? Since the
> > recycle path is suspicious a bit to me, probably limiting memory or
> > slowing tx (maybe different mtus on eth0 and 1) under heavy multi cpu
> > load might help.
> >
> 
> I'll do my best with your recommended test conditions. I have reserved
> a machine and two ports of  hw packet generator, now we'll see if this
> error will occur again or not. (But I'am not sure if I want to see it
> again:)

Really this rx recycle affair is more than suspicious to me too.

Is it really worth the pain ?

Are MTU changes handled correctly ? ( must flush rx_recycle queue...)

Using a single rx_recycle queue in a supposed multiqueue driver makes
absolutely _no_ sense to me. This adds an artificial contention point.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-22  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-19692-10286@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2010-10-04 20:53 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 19692] New: linux-2.6.36-rc5 crash with gianfar ethernet at full line rate traffic Andrew Morton
2010-10-08  9:24   ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-09 12:10     ` emin ak
2010-10-10 10:32       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-15  8:58         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-15 23:14           ` emin ak
2010-10-16 19:48             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-19  6:44               ` emin ak
2010-10-19 10:06                 ` [PATCH] gianfar: Fix crashes on RX path (Was Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 19692] New: linux-2.6.36-rc5 crash with gianfar ethernet at full line rate traffic) Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-22  5:42                   ` emin ak
2010-10-22  6:14                     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-10-22  7:03                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-22  6:11                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-22  6:52                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-22  8:52                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-26 17:42                         ` [PATCH] gianfar: Fix crashes on RX path David Miller
2010-10-26 21:20                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-10-26 21:23                             ` David Miller

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