Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:29:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Christopher Forgeron <csforgeron@gmail.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@freebsd.org>, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, Markus Gebert <markus.gebert@hostpoint.ch> Subject: Re: 9.2 ixgbe tx queue hang Message-ID: <349646395.2447442.1395700145224.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <5330632E.3050505@freebsd.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > On 3/23/14, 4:57 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: > > Christopher Forgeron wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Rick Macklem < > >> rmacklem@uoguelph.ca > >>> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Christopher Forgeron wrote: > >>> #if defined(INET) || defined(INET6) > >>> /* Initialize to max value. */ > >>> if (ifp->if_hw_tsomax == 0) > >>> ifp->if_hw_tsomax = IP_MAXPACKET; > >>> KASSERT(ifp->if_hw_tsomax <= IP_MAXPACKET && > >>> ifp->if_hw_tsomax >= IP_MAXPACKET / 8, > >>> ("%s: tsomax outside of range", __func__)); > >>> #endif > >>> > >>> > >>> Should this be the location where it's being set rather than in > >>> ixgbe? I would assume that other drivers could fall prey to this > >>> issue. > >>> > >> All of this should be prepended with "I'm an NFS guy, not a > >> networking > >> guy, so I might be wrong". > >> > >> Other drivers (and ixgbe for the 82598 chip) can handle a packet > >> that > >> is in more than 32 mbufs. (I think the 82598 handles 100, grep for > >> SCATTER > >> in *.h in sys/dev/ixgbe.) > >> > > the Xen backend can not handle mor ethan 32 segments in some versions > of Xen. > Oops, poorly worded. I should have said "Some other drivers...". Yes, there are several (I once did a find/grep, but didn't keep the output) that have this 32 limit. Also, I have no idea if the limit can easily be increased to 35 for them? (Bryan was able to do that for the virtio network driver.) rick ps: If it was just "ix" I wouldn't care as much about this. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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