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
next prev parent 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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