Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765470AbZLQWts (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:49:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765462AbZLQWtq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:49:46 -0500 Received: from mail-pw0-f42.google.com ([209.85.160.42]:53955 "EHLO mail-pw0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762979AbZLQWtp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:49:45 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=vZdhBkFAgVO5CB8Ccw2Oy++3c9a7tHysQGSkQkDBGBswWq09vTBsf5DV/f63a4HkOt Umb1+n9Nm9oZGs1ZHr6j+JV9UZzSQJduYnGrfBscN30SZS5gGjZvUMFI/unbr02P3692 ON5gWHpucx/kwOppU7dVqKtuKbaYtQiNzzvg4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:49:44 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: tg3 and bcm5703 cards - rx dropped packets From: Michael Di Domenico To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1281 Lines: 31 I have several Dell t3500 workstation which we've installed PCI-X BroadCom cards specifically the BCM5703 Fiber cards. We're also using RedHat v5.4 2.6.18-164.6.1 kernel with all the stock drivers. For some reason which i cannot determine, when we read a large amount of data into the workstation we see the RX dropped counter steadily (rapidly) increase. This only happens on reads, if we do a write operation we do not see TX drops. We've tested this between all types of devices (nfs, http) servers at various points in the network and the only common thing is the NIC. I'd think it was just a bad nic, but we have several nics across t3500 and t3400's doing this. Is anyone aware of such an issue? Can anyone recommend some steps i can take to isolate why the packets are being dropped? I hooked up wireshark on one of the servers while we were running the test and i see a lot of Duplicate ACK and TCP Checksum errors, in the communications between the two hosts. But im not sure that actually points to anything. Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/