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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, davem@redhat.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Hang when testing with AMD64 with Tg3
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:58:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4162B6B2.6030208@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096938308.22947.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 02:15 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:11:11PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>
>>>Doing simple iperf test on new opteron with tg3 against existing Xeon
>>>system.  I am seeing something wierd, the connection hangs right away.
>>>Is this a TSO bug.  
>>>
>>>Sender: BK latest (2.6.9-rc3) Tg3 (XX.YY.250.3)
>>>Receiver: BK + netdev(jeffm) + dave's latest e100 (XX.YY.1.73)
>>>
>>>Both machines are directly connected with a netgear 100mbit switch.
>>
> 
> IT ISN'T A NETWORK PROBLEM.  The problem is that iperf uses posix
> pthread mutex's to sychronize and it looks like a futex bug.

might not be a futex bug - check to see if iperf does
any writes, fflushes, etc, in a signal handler - i.e.
that its signal handling is thread-safe. glibc now
makes it a fatal bug..

thanks,
Nivedita

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-05 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05  0:11 Hang when testing with AMD64 with Tg3 Stephen Hemminger
2004-10-05  0:15 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-05  0:29   ` David S. Miller
2004-10-05  0:41     ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-05  0:47     ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-10-05  1:00   ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-10-05  1:05   ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-10-05 14:58     ` Nivedita Singhvi [this message]
2004-10-05 17:06       ` Stephen Hemminger

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