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From: Jeff Kirsher <tarbal@gmail.com>
To: adam.niescierowicz@justnet.pl
Cc: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Subject: Re: 3.4.1 and 3.5-rc1 Packet lost at 250Mb/s
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:59:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <507500AF.4080209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d29932d70fa2025a8b87b053d9d99953@justnet.pl>

On 10/09/2012 12:56 PM, Nieścierowicz Adam wrote:
> W dniu 08.10.2012 14:59, Andre Tomt napisał(a):
>
>> On 08. okt. 2012 14:32, Andre Tomt wrote:
>>
>>> On 08. okt. 2012 14:13, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 14:00 +0200, Andre Tomt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 08. okt. 2012 12:49, Nieścierowicz Adam wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> W dniu 08.10.2012 11:47, Eric Dumazet napisał(a):
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyway you dont say where are drops, (ifconfig give us very few
>>>>>>> drops)
>>>>>> you can see no losses(drop), but a temporary decline in traffic
>>>>>> on the interface to 0kb/s
>>>>> This sounds very familiar, could it be something similar to:
>>>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134594936016796&w=3 [1] The chip
>>>>> seems to be of the same family (though not model)
>>>> Yes, but Adam says 3.4.1 already has a problem, while commit
>>>> 2cb7a9cc008c25dc03314de563c00c107b3e5432 is in 3.5 only. Since Adam
>>>> uses Intel e1000e, it could be the BQL related problem.
>>> The other chips have had DMA burst flag enabled for longer, so that he
>>> sees the same problem in 3.4 while I'm not makes sense. Hmm, as 3.4 is
>>> when BQL went in (IIRC) it seems very likely that this BQL issue is the
>>> problem for both of us.
>>
>> To clarify; I think the DMA burst flag in the driver triggers the BQL
>> related issue. Judging by the patchwork link for wthresh=1 this seems
>> very related indeed.
>>
>> Removing the FLAG2_DMA_BURST flag for 82574 in the driver works for me.
>> Adam, it might be worth testing out a build on your system too with the
>> flag removed. If you try the attached patch (for 3.6, probably OK for
>> 3.5) and the problem dissapears, we are probably at least talking about
>> the same bug.
>
> after applying the patch everything looks good, no visible loss
>
> Do you expect to correct the bug in mainline? 
Jesse Brandenburg is working on a patch for upstream currently to fix 
the issue.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-10  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-07 19:18 3.4.1 and 3.5-rc1 Packet lost at 250Mb/s Nieścierowicz Adam
2012-10-08  6:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08  9:29   ` Nieścierowicz Adam
2012-10-08  9:47     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 10:49       ` Nieścierowicz Adam
2012-10-08 12:00         ` Andre Tomt
2012-10-08 12:06           ` Nieścierowicz Adam
2012-10-08 12:13           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-08 12:32             ` Andre Tomt
2012-10-08 12:59               ` Andre Tomt
2012-10-09 19:56                 ` Nieścierowicz Adam
2012-10-10  4:59                   ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-06  9:47 Nieścierowicz Adam
2012-07-06 10:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-08  9:31 Nieścierowicz Adam
2012-06-08  8:58 Nieścierowicz Adam
2012-06-08  9:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-08  9:43   ` Eric Dumazet

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