Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:16:35 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em driver, 82574L chip, and possibly ASPM Message-ID: <icgerb$gnj$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <4CEBBB8F.70400@sentex.net> References: <icgd44$89l$1@dough.gmane.org> <4CEBBB8F.70400@sentex.net>
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On 11/23/10 14:03, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 11/23/2010 7:47 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: >> It looks like I'm unfortunate enough to have to deploy on a machine >> which has the 82574L Intel NIC chip on a Supermicro X8SIE-F board, which >> apparently has hardware issues, according to this thread: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2908463&group_id=42302&atid=447449 >> >> > > Interesting, this is the same nic that has been giving me grief! Mine is > on an Intel server board (S3420GPX). The symptoms are VERY similar to > what the LINUX user sees as well with RX errors and the traffic patterns. I've posted detailed info on this NIC in the thread "em card wedging" - can you compare it with yours? The whole thing looks very sensitive to BIOS settings. I've just toggled something that looked unrelated (don't remember what, I've been toggling BIOS settings all day) and the machine has been doing a flood-ping for 20 minutes without wedging (which doesn't mean it won't wedge as soon as I send this message, it did such things before). One other thing, I don't know if this is normal as I've only just noticed it: flood-pinging a machine (also a FreeBSD machine, on the same switch) and monitoring the packet rates with netstat I see that the rates begin at something like 8,000 PPS (in either direction) and then slowly over a timespan of 5-10 minutes climb to 100,000 PPS (again, in either direction). Since this is gigabit LAN with a Cisco switch, I'd say the 100,000 PPS should be correct. The other machine I'm pinging also has an em card but a "desktop class" one. Is this slow-start expected / normal?
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