Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932480Ab0AGFzL (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 00:55:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752161Ab0AGFzJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 00:55:09 -0500 Received: from mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net ([167.206.4.197]:48441 "EHLO mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750811Ab0AGFzG (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 00:55:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:54:25 -0500 From: Michael Breuer Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_packet: Don't use skb after dev_queue_xmit() In-reply-to: <4B4571D5.30002@majjas.com> To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Jarek Poplawski , David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, flyboy@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <4B457711.1040008@majjas.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20100105230746.GA6612@del.dom.local> <4B43F72C.9090004@majjas.com> <20100106072208.GA6711@ff.dom.local> <4B44E952.5000804@majjas.com> <20100106131044.25b4e500@nehalam> <4B451C31.3000309@majjas.com> <4B454A16.3030909@majjas.com> <4B455C62.6030504@majjas.com> <20100106205343.5460d658@nehalam> <4B4571D5.30002@majjas.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 7830 Lines: 159 On 1/7/2010 12:32 AM, Michael Breuer wrote: > On 1/6/2010 11:53 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:00:34 -0500 >> Michael Breuer wrote: >> >>> Changing MTU to 9000, everything basically breaks - Can't use X11 >>> (local >>> or remote - get X11 screen after gdm login locally, but then goes back >>> to greeter; remote gets no greeter); ssh sessions hang; etc. This >>> time I >>> was able to reset the MTU back to 1500 without a reboot - but I did >>> have >>> to ifconfig eth0 down and then up. Looking at the sk98lin code, it >>> looks >>> to me like they do a bit more work with existing buffers before >>> completing the MTU switch. Note that even doing this, X11 did not work >>> (it did with the old mtu change code). Tried changing to mtu 4500 - >>> same >>> effect as 9000... but when I switched back to 1500, ksoftirqd started >>> spinning using 100% of one core. >> The problem is that patch was enabling scatter-gather and checksum >> offload >> that won't work on EC_U hardware with 9K MTU. At least, it never worked >> for me when I tested it. So because of that it really doesn't change >> anything >> for the better on that chip version. >> >> What version chip is on that motherboard? Mine is: >> Yukon-2 EC Ultra chip revision 3 >> which corresponds to B0 step. >> >> Another possibility is the PHY register which controls number of ticks >> of buffering. The default is zero, which gives the most buffering >> (good), >> but the firmware could be reprogramming it (bad). In general, the >> driver >> doesn't fiddle with bits that are already set correctly, because >> sometimes >> vendors need to tweak PCI timing in firmware/BIOS. It seems the >> firmware on this >> chip is just a bunch of register setups done on power on. > Also - I'm seeing a huge number of dropped packets (RX) > 200-300/second. Probably why this is so slow. > > Current ifconfig: > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:18:00:1C:3B > inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::226:18ff:fe00:1c3b/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING ALLMULTI MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:26647536 errors:0 dropped:517884 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:12112780 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:38960063319 (36.2 GiB) TX bytes:1889879762 (1.7 GiB) > Interrupt:18 > > > Never mind... spoke too soon. Crashed again. Just took longer: Jan 7 00:37:39 mail kernel: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2 Jan 7 00:37:39 mail kernel: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [06:00.0] fault addr fff1401fe000 Jan 7 00:37:39 mail kernel: DMAR:[fault reason 06] PTE Read access is not set Jan 7 00:37:39 mail kernel: sky2 0000:06:00.0: error interrupt status=0x80000000 Jan 7 00:37:39 mail kernel: sky2 0000:06:00.0: PCI hardware error (0x2010) Jan 7 00:37:40 mail smbd[4729]: [2010/01/07 00:37:40, 0] lib/util_sock.c:539(read_fd_with_timeout) Jan 7 00:37:40 mail smbd[4729]: [2010/01/07 00:37:40, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1491(get_peer_addr_internal) Jan 7 00:37:40 mail smbd[4729]: getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected Jan 7 00:37:40 mail smbd[4729]: read_fd_with_timeout: client 0.0.0.0 read error = Connection timed out. Jan 7 00:37:40 mail dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.0.0.32 from 00:26:bb:aa:15:10 (mbitouch) via eth0 Jan 7 00:37:40 mail dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.0.0.32 to 00:26:bb:aa:15:10 (mbitouch) via eth0 Jan 7 00:37:41 mail dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.0.0.32 from 00:26:bb:aa:15:10 (mbitouch) via eth0 Jan 7 00:37:41 mail dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.0.0.32 to 00:26:bb:aa:15:10 (mbitouch) via eth0 Jan 7 00:37:44 mail dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.0.0.32 from 00:26:bb:aa:15:10 (mbitouch) via eth0 Jan 7 00:37:44 mail dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.0.0.32 to 00:26:bb:aa:15:10 (mbitouch) via eth0 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:261 dev_watchdog+0xf3/0x164() Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: Hardware name: System Product Name Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (sky2): transmit queue 0 timed out Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: Modules linked in: ip6table_filter ip6table_mangle ip6_tables ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat iptable_mangle iptable_raw bridge stp appletalk psnap llc nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss exportfs hwmon_vid coretemp sunrpc acpi_cpufreq sit tunnel4 ipt_LOG nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_ftp xt_DSCP xt_dscp xt_MARK nf_conntrack_ipv6 xt_multiport ipv6 dm_multipath kvm_intel kvm snd_hda_codec_analog snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_ens1371 gameport snd_rawmidi gspca_spca505 gspca_main pcspkr snd_ac97_codec snd_hwdep i2c_i801 snd_seq firewire_ohci videodev v4l1_compat snd_seq_device v4l2_compat_ioctl32 ac97_bus firewire_core crc_itu_t iTCO_wdt snd_pcm iTCO_vendor_support wmi snd_timer snd sky2 asus_atk0110 hwmon soundcore snd_page_alloc fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor raid456 async_raid6_recov async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_memcpy async_tx raid1 ata_generic pata_acpi pata_marvell nouveau ttm drm_kms_helper drm agpgart fb i2c_algo_bit cfbcopyarea i2c_core cfbimgblt cfbfil Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: lrect [last unloaded: microcode] Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.32-00840-gec8257c-dirty #44 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: Call Trace: Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0x94 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] ? netif_tx_lock+0x44/0x6c Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] dev_watchdog+0xf3/0x164 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] ? cascade+0x6a/0x84 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] run_timer_softirq+0x1c8/0x270 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] __do_softirq+0xf8/0x1cd Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] ? tick_program_event+0x2a/0x2c Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] do_softirq+0x4b/0xa6 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] irq_exit+0x4a/0x8c Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x86/0x94 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x256/0x28a Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x24f/0x28a Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0x9e/0xfa Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] ? cpu_idle+0xb4/0xf6 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: [] ? start_secondary+0x201/0x242 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: ---[ end trace 57f7151f6a5def07 ]--- Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: tx timeout Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: transmit ring 79 .. 39 report=79 done=79 Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: disabling interface Jan 7 00:37:47 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: enabling interface Jan 7 00:37:51 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both JJan 7 00:38:07 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: tx timeout Jan 7 00:38:07 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: transmit ring 3 .. 90 report=3 done=3 Jan 7 00:38:07 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: disabling interface Jan 7 00:38:07 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: enabling interface and so on. -- 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/