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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Low performance Intel 10GE NIC (3.2.10) on 2.6.38 Kernel
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:42:57 +0200
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Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
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To: Wei Gu <wei.gu@ericsson.com>
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Le lundi 11 avril 2011 =C3=A0 23:14 +0800, Wei Gu a =C3=A9crit :
> I tried the ixgbe-3.3.8 (insmod ixgbe.ko RSS=3D8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8 FdirMo=
de=3D0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 Node=3D0,0,1,1,2,2,3,3)  from e1000.sf.net both on=
 2.6.35.1 and 2.6.35.2, same observation as 3.2.10 ixgbe driver, On 2.6=
=2E35.2 it have high rx errors:
> Ethtool -S eth10 |grep error
>      rx_errors: 0
>      tx_errors: 0
>      rx_over_errors: 0
>      rx_crc_errors: 0
>      rx_frame_errors: 0
>      rx_fifo_errors: 0
>      rx_missed_errors: 2263088
>      tx_aborted_errors: 0
>      tx_carrier_errors: 0
>      tx_fifo_errors: 0
>      tx_heartbeat_errors: 0
>      rx_long_length_errors: 0
>      rx_short_length_errors: 0
>      rx_csum_offload_errors: 0
>      fcoe_last_errors: 0
>=20

It would be nice you post perf record / perf report results

During your stress , do

perf record -a -g sleep 10
perf report

And post "top offenders"

Thanks