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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:39:14 -0800
From:      Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To:        Vlad Galu <dudu@dudu.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: request for MFC of em/igb drivers
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimS7pu1zobeen1_%2BaaSZ7ojaWO0nsG%2BJ89nxK8v@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinVugN-6dDvdfByq1eCevqcayusK_LECi2kdREJ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20101117070422.GA45678@cabstand.com> <4CE3D097.7030204@grosbein.pp.ru> <AANLkTinVugN-6dDvdfByq1eCevqcayusK_LECi2kdREJ@mail.gmail.com>

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Yes, everyone, I plan on updating all the drivers, there has been no
activity
because I've tracking down a couple bugs that are tough, involving days
of testing to reproduce. I know we're getting close and I appreciate any
reports like this before.

Stay tuned....

Jack


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Vlad Galu <dudu@dudu.ro> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>
> wrote:
> > On 17.11.2010 13:04, Chris Peiffer wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've been watching the traffic here over the last few months relating
> >> to the em and igb Intel ethernet drivers. It seems like there's a big
> >> consensus that HEAD has some good new fixes.
> >>
> >> Looking at this:
> >>
> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c
> >>
> >> There's a pretty big commit to HEAD in rev 1.58 on Sep 27 that's
> >> marked "MFC: a week" but it doesn't look like anything's been MFC'd
> >> since. (And several other revisions that look more experimental have
> >> since gone into HEAD.)
> >>
> >> We've been seeing some weird issues with em devices under high load
> >> and if these changes in 1.58 are ready for STABLE we'd love to test
> >> them live.
> >>
> >> So this is a beg... if the relevant committers are out here, can that
> >> MFC go through soon? Or if it can't, or I'm reading the logs wrong,
> >> please explain.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Indeed, in RELENG_8 em(4) is not useable for us because of two flaws:
> >
> > 1. It panices system due to NULL pointers dereference.
> > It needs the following patch taken from CURRENT's igb(4):
> >
> > --- if_em.c.orig        2010-11-02 15:45:56.000000000 +0600
> > +++ if_em.c     2010-11-08 14:24:46.000000000 +0600
> > @@ -4181,9 +4181,11 @@
> >                        ifp->if_ierrors++;
> >                        /* Reuse loaded DMA map and just update mbuf chain
> */
> >                        mp = rxr->rx_buffers[i].m_head;
> > +                       if(mp) {
> >                        mp->m_len = mp->m_pkthdr.len = MCLBYTES;
> >                        mp->m_data = mp->m_ext.ext_buf;
> >                        mp->m_next = NULL;
> > +                       }
> >                        if (adapter->max_frame_size <=
> >                            (MCLBYTES - ETHER_ALIGN))
> >                                m_adj(mp, ETHER_ALIGN);
> >
> > igb(4) in RELENG_8 has not this fix too and there is a PR:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=150920
> >
> > 2. It makes physical link down/up for every vlan creation/deletion
> > that leads to 3 seconds of service interruption and
> > down/up events for all other vlans based on same parent interface.
> > It needs the following patch that's already present in CURRENT
> > but not in RELENG_8:
> >
> > @@ -4342,7 +4344,8 @@
> >        em_shadow_vfta[index] |= (1 << bit);
> >        ++adapter->num_vlans;
> >        /* Re-init to load the changes */
> > -       em_init(adapter);
> > +       if (ifp->if_capenable & IFCAP_VLAN_HWFILTER)
> > +               em_init(adapter);
> >  }
> >
> >  /*
> > @@ -4366,7 +4369,8 @@
> >        em_shadow_vfta[index] &= ~(1 << bit);
> >        --adapter->num_vlans;
> >        /* Re-init to load the changes */
> > -       em_init(adapter);
> > +       if (ifp->if_capenable & IFCAP_VLAN_HWFILTER)
> > +               em_init(adapter);
> >  }
> >
> >  static void
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> Any plans for bringing in version 2.2.3 of ixgbe(4)?
>
>
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