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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Mystery packet killing tg3
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 20:30:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14qdiyhcn.fsf@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050502200251.38271b61.davem@davemloft.net> (David S. Miller's message of "Mon, 2 May 2005 20:02:51 -0700")

"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
>
> This usually means that there is some DMA corruption.
> For example, some bug in the x86_64 IOMMU code or similar
> causes a bogus DMA address to be fed to the tg3 or even
> worse a DMA mapping is unmapped before tg3 is actually
> done with it.

IOMMU code on x86-64 should be never active unless Stephen
used IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force.  THat is because the tg3
is a 64bit capable device and should always use bypass.

> Since AMD promised me an Opteron system last year, but never
> made good on that promise, I've never been able to work on
> fixing this bug myself. :-/

You could just buy one ,-) Lowend A64s boards+cpus are *really* cheap
these days. And it will likely be much quieter than a noisy
original AMD box.  And the IOMMU works on that too if you force
it (normally it is never active because they dont have enough
memory to need remapping) 

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-04 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-02 23:24 Mystery packet killing tg3 Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-03  3:02 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-03 21:05   ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-03 21:13     ` David S. Miller
2005-05-03 20:41       ` Michael Chan
2005-05-03 22:03         ` David S. Miller
2005-05-03 21:28           ` Michael Chan
2005-05-03 22:53             ` David S. Miller
2005-05-03 22:45           ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-03 22:39             ` David S. Miller
2005-05-03 22:59               ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-03 21:29       ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-04 18:30   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-05-04 18:44     ` Peter Buckingham
2005-05-05 11:43       ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-05 16:20         ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-05 18:01           ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-05 17:09         ` Peter Buckingham
2005-05-05 17:32           ` Rick Jones
2005-05-05 17:38             ` Peter Buckingham
2005-05-05 17:45             ` John Heffner
2005-05-05 18:06           ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-05 18:21             ` Peter Buckingham
2005-05-05 18:31               ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-05 18:40                 ` Peter Buckingham
2005-05-05 18:56                   ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-05 19:02                     ` Peter Buckingham
2005-05-05 19:24                       ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-04 19:41     ` Stephen Hemminger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-04  6:09 Michael Chan
2005-05-04  6:27 Michael Chan
2005-05-04 22:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-04 22:30   ` Michael Chan
     [not found]     ` <20050505113356.0f1b4c00.davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-05 19:56       ` Michael Chan
2005-05-05 21:42         ` David S. Miller

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