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From: Hiroaki SHIMODA <shimoda.hiroaki@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>,
	Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
	davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: Strange latency spikes/TX network stalls on Sun Fire X4150(x86) and e1000e
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:43:03 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120606174303.0bfc9868.shimoda.hiroaki@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338959413.2760.3686.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:10:13 +0200
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 23:25 +0900, Hiroaki SHIMODA wrote:
> 
> > If I understand the code and spec correctly, TX interrupts are
> > generated when TXDCTL.WTHRESH descriptors have been accumulated
> > and write backed.
> > 
> > I tentatively changed the TXDCTL.WTHRESH to 1, then it seems
> > that latency spikes are disappear.
> > 
> > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h
> > @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ struct e1000_info;
> >  #define E1000_TXDCTL_DMA_BURST_ENABLE                          \
> >         (E1000_TXDCTL_GRAN | /* set descriptor granularity */  \
> >          E1000_TXDCTL_COUNT_DESC |                             \
> > -        (5 << 16) | /* wthresh must be +1 more than desired */\
> > +        (1 << 16) | /* wthresh must be +1 more than desired */\
> >          (1 << 8)  | /* hthresh */                             \
> >          0x1f)       /* pthresh */
> > 
> 
> 
> Was this patch officially submitted ?
> 
> Thanks !

Sorry for long delay. I'll post.
(I have no idea how to fix this problem as keeping TXDCTL.WTHRESH to 5)

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-06  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-15 14:15 Strange latency spikes/TX network stalls on Sun Fire X4150(x86) and e1000e Denys Fedoryshchenko
2012-05-17 13:42 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2012-05-17 16:54   ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2012-05-18 14:04     ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2012-05-19  2:07       ` Tom Herbert
2012-05-19  2:29         ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2012-05-19  2:40         ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2012-05-20 17:40           ` Tom Herbert
2012-05-20 18:53             ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2012-05-20 19:07               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-20 19:18                 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2012-05-21  3:56                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-21  8:06                     ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2012-05-21  8:30                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-21  8:40                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-21  9:22                           ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2012-05-22 17:11                           ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2012-05-22 17:24                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-25  6:01                               ` Tom Herbert
2012-05-25  6:22                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-25 16:59                                   ` Tom Herbert
2012-05-25 17:18                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-29 14:25             ` Hiroaki SHIMODA
2012-05-29 14:54               ` Tom Herbert
2012-05-29 15:11                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-29 19:52                 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2012-05-30  0:06                 ` Hiroaki SHIMODA
2012-05-30  8:40                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-30 10:43                     ` Hiroaki SHIMODA
2012-05-30 11:08                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-30 11:20                         ` Joe Perches
2012-05-30 11:59                           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-30 14:09                             ` Joe Perches
2012-05-30 14:42                               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-30 14:50                                 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-30 11:29                         ` Hiroaki SHIMODA
2012-05-30 14:49                           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-30 15:00                             ` dave taht
2012-05-30 22:19                             ` Hiroaki SHIMODA
2012-05-30 10:52                     ` David Laight
2012-05-30 11:04                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-30 11:12                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-06  5:10               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-06  8:43                 ` Hiroaki SHIMODA [this message]
2012-06-06 16:26                   ` Jesse Brandeburg
2012-06-06 17:05                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-06 17:26                       ` David Miller
2012-06-06 17:19                     ` Hiroaki SHIMODA
2012-06-06 18:21                       ` Tom Herbert
2012-06-06 18:23                         ` David Miller
2012-06-06 18:46                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-05-20 18:13       ` Eric Dumazet

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