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Date:      Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:43:40 -0800
From:      YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Possible sge(4)/atphy(4) regression on RELENG_9?
Message-ID:  <20111128004340.GA1830@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <D4802FF0-5AB3-4322-9AA5-271E15C00CD2@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Nikolay Denev wrote:
> 
> On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:18 PM, Nikolay Denev wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Oct 24, 2011, at 8:52 PM, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> > 
> >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 04:43:57PM +0300, Nikolay Denev wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> 
> >>> I've recently upgraded a box running RELENG_8 to RELENG_9 and immediately I noticed much slower network connection.
> >>> Running iperf shows about 20-30Mbits which was almost full GigE (~900Mbits) speed before.
> >>> 
> >>> I'm noticing interface errors :
> >>> 
> >>> [16:37]ndenev@nas:~% netstat -I sge0
> >>> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs Idrop    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
> >>> sge0   1500 <Link#4>      00:0a:e4:86:62:fa 76114295 42197     0 103559806 10324     0
> >>> sge0   1500 10.0.0.0      nas               76109575     -     - 119109557     -     -
> >>> 
> >>> Both the switch and the card show 1000 full-duplex.
> >>> I've tried playing with rxcsum,txcsum,vlanhwtag,tso but disabling even all of them do not change anything.
> >>> I've tried different switch port and changed the cable.
> >>> 
> >>> Here is devinfo for my hardware :
> >>> 
> >>> sge0 pnpinfo vendor=0x1039 device=0x0191 subvendor=0x103c subdevice=0x2a70 class=0x020000
> >>> atphy0 pnpinfo oui=0xc82e model=0x1 rev=0x6 at phyno=0
> >>> 
> >>> Of course all of this can mean hardware problem, I just want to ask if somebody is seeing something similar, since
> >>> there are quite a lot minibus related changes as far as I can see.
> >>> 
> >>> I'll boot RELENG_8 again tomorrow and do a quick test again to verify that this is not a hardware issue.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> I don't have sge(4) controller so it would be better to let us know
> >> which revision introduced the regression.  Just looking over the
> >> code change didn't reveal the possible cause.
> >> BTW, I thought sge(4) shall use rgephy(4). Can you also verify
> >> whether sge(4) in stable/8 also use atphy(4)?
> > 
> > I've just checked my logs and I can confirm that it was atphy(4) even in stable/8.
> > 
> > Sep 26 15:55:19 nas kernel: atphy0: <Atheros F1 10/100/1000 PHY> PHY 0 on miibus0
> > Sep 26 15:55:19 nas kernel: atphy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto
> > 
> > I'll post more info when I try again stable/8 on this hardware.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> 
> Just for the sake of completeness I'm reporting that the problem turned out to be not hardware related.
> The thread "TCP Reassembly Issues" in freebsd-stable list describes the issue.
> 

Thanks for letting us know that.

BTW, it seems sge(4) controllers support flow control as well as
jumbo frame by scattering incoming jumbo frame into multiple RX
buffers. Jumbo frame support code may require more time in my side
but flow control support code could be implemented within a week.
Can you test the patch if I manage to write support code?



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