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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+list@rabbit.us>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mcarlson@broadcom.com, mchan@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: Reproducible corruption with SG offloading
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:06:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4E27C3.90003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4B181B.3020208@rabbit.us>

Peter Rabbitson wrote, On 01/11/2010 01:22 PM:

> I have the following card:
> 
> 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)

...

> 	Kernel driver in use: tg3
> 
> When confronted with very specific repeatable data streams the card eventually
> starts setting garbage down the wire. If I do ethtool -k <ifname> sg off the
> problem disappears. Let me know if ou are interested in tracking this down,
> (whether software or hardware) otherwise I'll throw the card away and go with
> something else.
> 
> Please CC me as I am not subscribed to netdev@
> 
> This is my minimal test case with relevant data:

Interested or not, it would be useful to save more data on this, e.g. into
bugzilla report (plus some link here); especially the kernel version, these
tcpdumps as row files, ifconfigs, and as much as possible according to the
linux-2.6/REPORTING_BUGS.

Thanks,
Jarek P.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-13 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-11 12:22 Reproducible corruption with SG offloading Peter Rabbitson
2010-01-13 20:06 ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2010-01-13 20:55 ` Matt Carlson
2010-01-13 21:46   ` Rick Jones
2010-01-13 22:00     ` Matt Carlson

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