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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Increased multicast packet drops in 3.4
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:26:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346912779.13121.178.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120906001108.GA6035@BohrerMBP.rgmadvisors.com>

On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 19:11 -0500, Shawn Bohrer wrote:
> One thing I find interesting is that some of the time 2
> or 3 of the 8 processes will report that they missed the exact same
> 50+ packets.  Since the other processes receive the packets I know
> that they are making it to the machine and past the driver.

Could it be that these processes missing 50+ packets provide a non
accessible area of memory and these recvmsg() calls return EFAULT ?

Are you using special memory areas, using mprotect(), or huge pages for
example ?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-06  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-06  0:11 Increased multicast packet drops in 3.4 Shawn Bohrer
2012-09-06  6:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-06  6:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-06 13:03   ` Shawn Bohrer
2012-09-06 13:21     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-06 13:31       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-07  4:00       ` Shawn Bohrer
2012-09-07  6:08         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-07 22:38           ` Shawn Bohrer
2012-09-06  6:26 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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