Re: freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 370, Issue 2

2010-08-17 Thread jhell
What ?

You must have missed the following suggestion/request:

Might also help if it was not top-posted. ;)

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On 08/17/2010 11:09, FOSS Deluxe wrote:
> Well in normal use user applications are the ones that put the load on
> the CPU. The kernel is pretty much lightweight in size and work when non
> kernel intensive tasks are at hand (like gigabit links in the networks,
> etc). The good news is that the kernel will have its own core to play with.
> 
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>> 1. Re: Inconsistent IO performance (Ivan Voras)
>> 2. Re: Inconsistent IO performance  (Kevin Oberman)
>> 3. STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault (Alexey Tarasov)
>> 4. Re: Inconsistent IO performance (Jeremy Chadwick)
>> 5. Re: Inconsistent IO performance (Jeremy Chadwick)
>> 6. Re: STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault
>>(Kostik Belousov)
>> 7. Re: STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault
>>(Alexey Tarasov)
>> 8. Re: STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault
>>(Kostik Belousov)
>> 9. Re: STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault
>>(Alexey Tarasov)
>>10. Re: STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault
>>(Kostik Belousov)
>>11. Re: STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault
>>(Alexey Tarasov)
>>12. Re: RELENG_7 em problems (and RELENG_8) (Mike Tancsa)
>>13. Performance AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (Vladislav V. Prodan)
>>14. Crash in dummynet. (Pawel Tyll)
>>15. Re: Crash in dummynet. (Luigi Rizzo) 


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Re: Soekris Sysinstall FTP & NFS Failure

2010-08-17 Thread Graham Menhennitt
On 18/08/10 05:57, Benjamin Francom wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a Soekris net5501, and need some assistance with the installation
> [FreeBSD 8.1].  I've configured a PXE environment with TFTP, and NFS, and I
> can boot and get into sysinstall.  After going through the initial
> configuration, slices, setting the IP address (DHCP), and proceeding with an
> FTP installation, it fails.  It's like it cannot see the ftp site.  I've
>
>   
G'day Ben,

It does work - I've done it a number of times. I presume that you've
seen my guide at
 
http://menhennitt.com.au/wordpress/2009/07/05/installing-freebsd-on-a-soekris-net5501-using-pxe-and-dnsmasq#more-14
and Jeremy's at
  http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install_8.html

Also, there's a Soekris mailing list that often has stuff that's more
Soekris specific - http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

I seem to remember having the same problem that you're having at one
stage, but unfortunately, I can't remember the solution.

Hope this helps,
  Graham



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Re: Soekris Sysinstall FTP & NFS Failure

2010-08-17 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Bruce Cran  wrote:

> As far as I can tell, netinstall is broken on all recent releases.
> Using a static IP address seems to get further in that you don't get an
> immediate error, but instead you get returned to the list of FTP
> servers after a minute.
>

Works for me, perhaps you need to use passive ftp?

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Re: Soekris Sysinstall FTP & NFS Failure

2010-08-17 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:57:55 -0700
Benjamin Francom  wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have a Soekris net5501, and need some assistance with the
> installation [FreeBSD 8.1].  I've configured a PXE environment with
> TFTP, and NFS, and I can boot and get into sysinstall.  After going
> through the initial configuration, slices, setting the IP address
> (DHCP), and proceeding with an FTP installation, it fails.  It's like
> it cannot see the ftp site.  I've also tried NFS with the same
> problem.

As far as I can tell, netinstall is broken on all recent releases.
Using a static IP address seems to get further in that you don't get an
immediate error, but instead you get returned to the list of FTP
servers after a minute.

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Soekris Sysinstall FTP & NFS Failure

2010-08-17 Thread Benjamin Francom
Hello all,

I have a Soekris net5501, and need some assistance with the installation
[FreeBSD 8.1].  I've configured a PXE environment with TFTP, and NFS, and I
can boot and get into sysinstall.  After going through the initial
configuration, slices, setting the IP address (DHCP), and proceeding with an
FTP installation, it fails.  It's like it cannot see the ftp site.  I've
also tried NFS with the same problem.

 lq Message qqk
 xInstallation completed with some errors.  You may wish to   x
 xscroll through the debugging messages on VTY1 with the  x
 xscroll-lock feature.  You can also choose "No" at the next  x
 xprompt and go back into the installation menus to retry x
 xwhichever operations have failed.   x
 t(100%)qqu
 x[  OK  ]x
 mqq[ Press enter or space ]qqj

I have confirmed that FTP and NFS are both working.

Since this is a headless serial connection, and I can't see what VTY1 says,
what would the best way to diagnose this be?  Is there a way to redirect the
output somewhere?

Thanks,
-Ben

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Re: RELENG_7 em problems (and RELENG_8)

2010-08-17 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:55:12PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 02:52 PM 8/17/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> 
> >Here is updated patch for HEAD and stable/8.
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch
> >
> >It seems to work as expected under my limited environments. If
> 
> Thanks! The patch applies cleanly and all works as expected now! I am 
> no longer able to trigger the bug. I just use the stock unmodified 
> driver normally, so no multi queues
> 

Glad to hear that. Thanks for testing!

> # vmstat -i
> interrupt  total   rate
> irq256: em0  149  0
> irq257: em13  0
> irq259: em3  971  2
> irq260: ahci0   1520  3
> 
> 
> 
> em3: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500
> 
> options=219b
> ether 00:15:17:xx:xx:xx
> inet6 fe80::215:17ff:fexx:%em3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> inet 192.168.xx.xx netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.xx.xx
> nd6 options=3
> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX )
> status: active
> 
> 
> e...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x34ec8086 chip=0x10d38086 
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> device = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
> class  = network
> subclass   = ethernet
> cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
> cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
> cap 11[a0] = MSI-X supports 5 messages in map 0x1c
> 
> 
> 
> patch < em.csum_tso.20100817.patch
> Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
> The text leading up to this was:
> --
> |Index: sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c
> |===
> |--- sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c  (revision 211398)
> |+++ sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c  (working copy)
> --
> Patching file sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c using Plan A...
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 237.
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 1730.
> Hunk #3 succeeded at 1759.
> Hunk #4 succeeded at 1930.
> Hunk #5 succeeded at 3148.
> Hunk #6 succeeded at 3351.
> Hunk #7 succeeded at 3533.
> Hunk #8 succeeded at 3590.
> Hunk #9 succeeded at 3603.
> Hmm...  The next patch looks like a unified diff to me...
> The text leading up to this was:
> --
> |Index: sys/dev/e1000/if_em.h
> |===
> |--- sys/dev/e1000/if_em.h  (revision 211398)
> |+++ sys/dev/e1000/if_em.h  (working copy)
> --
> Patching file sys/dev/e1000/if_em.h using Plan A...
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 284.
> done
> 
> ---Mike
> 
> 
> >you're using multiple Tx queues with em(4) it would be better to
> >disable Tx checksum offloading as driver always have to create a
> >new checksum context for each frame. This will effectively disable
> >pipelined Tx data DMA which in turn greatly slows down Tx
> >performance for small sized frames. The reason driver have to
> >create a new checksum context when it uses multiple Tx queues comes
> >from hardware limitation. The controller tracks only for the last
> >context descriptor that was written such that driver does not know
> >the state of checksum context configured in other Tx queue.
> >Hope this helps.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> ---Mike
> >>
> >>
> >> At 03:36 PM 7/2/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> >> >On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:39:22PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >> >> Hi Jack,
> >> >> Just a followup to the email below. I now saw what appears
> >> >> to be the same problem on RELENG_8, but on a different nic and with
> >> >> VLANs.  So not sure if this is a general em problem, a problem
> >> >> specific to some em NICs, or a TSO problem in general.  The issue
> >> >> seemed to be triggered when I added a new vlan based on
> >> >>
> >> >> e...@pci0:14:0:0:class=0x02 card=0x109a15d9
> >> >> chip=0x109a8086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> >> >> vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> >> >> device = 'Intel PRO/1000 PL Network Adaptor (82573L)'
> >> >> class  = network
> >> >> subclass   = ethernet
> >> >> cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3

Re: RELENG_7 em problems (and RELENG_8)

2010-08-17 Thread Mike Tancsa

At 02:52 PM 8/17/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:


Here is updated patch for HEAD and stable/8.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch

It seems to work as expected under my limited environments. If


Thanks! The patch applies cleanly and all works as expected now! I am 
no longer able to trigger the bug. I just use the stock unmodified 
driver normally, so no multi queues


# vmstat -i
interrupt  total   rate
irq256: em0  149  0
irq257: em13  0
irq259: em3  971  2
irq260: ahci0   1520  3



em3: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500

options=219b
ether 00:15:17:xx:xx:xx
inet6 fe80::215:17ff:fexx:%em3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 192.168.xx.xx netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.xx.xx
nd6 options=3
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX )
status: active


e...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x34ec8086 chip=0x10d38086 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00

vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
class  = network
subclass   = ethernet
cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
cap 11[a0] = MSI-X supports 5 messages in map 0x1c



patch < em.csum_tso.20100817.patch
Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--
|Index: sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c
|===
|--- sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c  (revision 211398)
|+++ sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c  (working copy)
--
Patching file sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 237.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 1730.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 1759.
Hunk #4 succeeded at 1930.
Hunk #5 succeeded at 3148.
Hunk #6 succeeded at 3351.
Hunk #7 succeeded at 3533.
Hunk #8 succeeded at 3590.
Hunk #9 succeeded at 3603.
Hmm...  The next patch looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--
|Index: sys/dev/e1000/if_em.h
|===
|--- sys/dev/e1000/if_em.h  (revision 211398)
|+++ sys/dev/e1000/if_em.h  (working copy)
--
Patching file sys/dev/e1000/if_em.h using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 284.
done

---Mike



you're using multiple Tx queues with em(4) it would be better to
disable Tx checksum offloading as driver always have to create a
new checksum context for each frame. This will effectively disable
pipelined Tx data DMA which in turn greatly slows down Tx
performance for small sized frames. The reason driver have to
create a new checksum context when it uses multiple Tx queues comes
from hardware limitation. The controller tracks only for the last
context descriptor that was written such that driver does not know
the state of checksum context configured in other Tx queue.
Hope this helps.

>
>
> ---Mike
>
>
> At 03:36 PM 7/2/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:39:22PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >> Hi Jack,
> >> Just a followup to the email below. I now saw what appears
> >> to be the same problem on RELENG_8, but on a different nic and with
> >> VLANs.  So not sure if this is a general em problem, a problem
> >> specific to some em NICs, or a TSO problem in general.  The issue
> >> seemed to be triggered when I added a new vlan based on
> >>
> >> e...@pci0:14:0:0:class=0x02 card=0x109a15d9
> >> chip=0x109a8086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> >> vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> >> device = 'Intel PRO/1000 PL Network Adaptor (82573L)'
> >> class  = network
> >> subclass   = ethernet
> >> cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> >> cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
> >> cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
> >>
> >> pci14:  on pcib5
> >> em3:  port 0x6000-0x601f
> >> mem 0xe830-0xe831 irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci14
> >> em3: Using MSI interrupt
> >> em3: [FILTER]
> >> em3: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:9f:eb:81
> >>
> >> em3: flags=8943
> >> metric 0 mtu 1500
> >> options=2098
> >> ether 00:30:48:9f:eb:81
> >> inet 10.255.255.254 netmask 0xfffc broadcast 10.255.255.255
> >> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT )
> >> status: a

Re: RELENG_7 em problems (and RELENG_8)

2010-08-17 Thread Jack Vogel
The guy who worries about the Linux driver's performance is in my team, and
he's
a very good engineer, and we're talking about the hardware's DMA, so its not
an OS issue, thus I'm not saying I'm sure, but I'm dubious about this, at
least
when we're talking about igb. But hey, I'm willing to be proven wrong :)

Jack


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Pyun YongHyeon  wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:34:31PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> > I believe the requirement of a context descriptor for most frames in the
> igb
> > driver
> > is just the way the hardware works, I've looked over the Linux driver
> again
> > and it
> > looks like they require the same. I don't believe its a big deal, just
> the
> > added
> > descriptor for the frame.
> >
>
> Setting up context does not cost much. The real cost comes from
> stopping requesting DMA for next packet whenever a new context
> is written.
> AFAIK Linux always added a new checksum context. I don't know
> whether Linux cares about the cost of refilling pipeline or
> measured the performance differences. FreeBSD noticed the
> difference on em(4) controllers and took appropriate action to take
> full advantage of the hardware feature, I think.
> I have to experiment how igb(4) works when it is told to reuse
> configured context(both checksum and TSO context).
>
>
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Re: RELENG_7 em problems (and RELENG_8)

2010-08-17 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:34:31PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> I believe the requirement of a context descriptor for most frames in the igb
> driver
> is just the way the hardware works, I've looked over the Linux driver again
> and it
> looks like they require the same. I don't believe its a big deal, just the
> added
> descriptor for the frame.
> 

Setting up context does not cost much. The real cost comes from
stopping requesting DMA for next packet whenever a new context
is written.
AFAIK Linux always added a new checksum context. I don't know
whether Linux cares about the cost of refilling pipeline or
measured the performance differences. FreeBSD noticed the
difference on em(4) controllers and took appropriate action to take
full advantage of the hardware feature, I think.
I have to experiment how igb(4) works when it is told to reuse
configured context(both checksum and TSO context).

> Jack
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Pyun YongHyeon  wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52:08AM -0700, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:07:11PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > > > Hi Jack,
> > > > FYI, I am still seeing this same problem on RELENG_8 (code
> > > > as of today).  Unfortunately I cant try Pyun's patch since the
> > > > underlying code has changed since then.
> > > >
> > > > e...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x34ec8086 chip=0x10d38086
> > > > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> > > > vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > > > device = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
> > > > class  = network
> > > > subclass   = ethernet
> > > > cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> > > > cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
> > > > cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
> > > > cap 11[a0] = MSI-X supports 5 messages in map 0x1c
> > > >
> > > > pci3:  on pcib3
> > > > em4:  port 0x1000-0x101f
> > > > mem 0xb190-0xb191,0xb192-0xb1923fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on
> > pci3
> > > > em4: Using MSI interrupt
> > > > em4: [FILTER]
> > > > em4: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:ed:3e:c4
> > > >
> > >
> > > Here is updated patch for HEAD and stable/8.
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch>
> > >
> > > It seems to work as expected under my limited environments. If
> > > you're using multiple Tx queues with em(4) it would be better to
> > > disable Tx checksum offloading as driver always have to create a
> > > new checksum context for each frame. This will effectively disable
> > > pipelined Tx data DMA which in turn greatly slows down Tx
> > > performance for small sized frames. The reason driver have to
> > > create a new checksum context when it uses multiple Tx queues comes
> > > from hardware limitation. The controller tracks only for the last
> > > context descriptor that was written such that driver does not know
> > > the state of checksum context configured in other Tx queue.
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> >
> > For igb(4) controllers, it seems we also need a way to avoid
> > creating a new checksum context for every Tx frame as we did in
> > em(4). Unlike em(4) controllers, igb(4) seems to maintain context
> > per queue such that we can safely reuse previously configured
> > context for a queue.
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Re: RELENG_7 em problems (and RELENG_8)

2010-08-17 Thread Jack Vogel
Well we do of course, i'll have my test engineer try it both ways and see
what
looks better. Let you know...

Jack


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Pyun YongHyeon  wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:05:56PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> > Hmmm, interesting, I'll have to have some testing done, maybe for the 574
> it
> > should automagically disable CSUM?
> >
>
> I don't have 82574 controller to test but it may depend on how
> pipelined Tx data DMA works. If 82574 can still pipeline Tx data
> DMA when a new context is written it would be better to enable
> checksum offloading. If em(4) uses single Tx queue, we can safely
> enable checksum offloading, I guess.
>
> > Jack
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Pyun YongHyeon 
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:07:11PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > > > Hi Jack,
> > > > FYI, I am still seeing this same problem on RELENG_8 (code
> > > > as of today).  Unfortunately I cant try Pyun's patch since the
> > > > underlying code has changed since then.
> > > >
> > > > e...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x34ec8086 chip=0x10d38086
> > > > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> > > > vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > > > device = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
> > > > class  = network
> > > > subclass   = ethernet
> > > > cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> > > > cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1
> message
> > > > cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
> > > > cap 11[a0] = MSI-X supports 5 messages in map 0x1c
> > > >
> > > > pci3:  on pcib3
> > > > em4:  port 0x1000-0x101f
> > > > mem 0xb190-0xb191,0xb192-0xb1923fff irq 16 at device 0.0
> on
> > > pci3
> > > > em4: Using MSI interrupt
> > > > em4: [FILTER]
> > > > em4: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:ed:3e:c4
> > > >
> > >
> > > Here is updated patch for HEAD and stable/8.
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch>
> <http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch>
> > >
> > > It seems to work as expected under my limited environments. If
> > > you're using multiple Tx queues with em(4) it would be better to
> > > disable Tx checksum offloading as driver always have to create a
> > > new checksum context for each frame. This will effectively disable
> > > pipelined Tx data DMA which in turn greatly slows down Tx
> > > performance for small sized frames. The reason driver have to
> > > create a new checksum context when it uses multiple Tx queues comes
> > > from hardware limitation. The controller tracks only for the last
> > > context descriptor that was written such that driver does not know
> > > the state of checksum context configured in other Tx queue.
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ---Mike
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > At 03:36 PM 7/2/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > > > >On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:39:22PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > > > >> Hi Jack,
> > > > >> Just a followup to the email below. I now saw what appears
> > > > >> to be the same problem on RELENG_8, but on a different nic and
> with
> > > > >> VLANs.  So not sure if this is a general em problem, a problem
> > > > >> specific to some em NICs, or a TSO problem in general.  The issue
> > > > >> seemed to be triggered when I added a new vlan based on
> > > > >>
> > > > >> e...@pci0:14:0:0:class=0x02 card=0x109a15d9
> > > > >> chip=0x109a8086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> > > > >> vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > > > >> device = 'Intel PRO/1000 PL Network Adaptor (82573L)'
> > > > >> class  = network
> > > > >> subclass   = ethernet
> > > > >> cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> > > > >> cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1
> message
> > > > >> cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link
> x1(x1)
>

Re: RELENG_7 em problems (and RELENG_8)

2010-08-17 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:05:56PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> Hmmm, interesting, I'll have to have some testing done, maybe for the 574 it
> should automagically disable CSUM?
> 

I don't have 82574 controller to test but it may depend on how
pipelined Tx data DMA works. If 82574 can still pipeline Tx data
DMA when a new context is written it would be better to enable
checksum offloading. If em(4) uses single Tx queue, we can safely
enable checksum offloading, I guess.

> Jack
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Pyun YongHyeon  wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:07:11PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > > Hi Jack,
> > > FYI, I am still seeing this same problem on RELENG_8 (code
> > > as of today).  Unfortunately I cant try Pyun's patch since the
> > > underlying code has changed since then.
> > >
> > > e...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x34ec8086 chip=0x10d38086
> > > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> > > vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > > device = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
> > > class  = network
> > > subclass   = ethernet
> > > cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> > > cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
> > > cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
> > > cap 11[a0] = MSI-X supports 5 messages in map 0x1c
> > >
> > > pci3:  on pcib3
> > > em4:  port 0x1000-0x101f
> > > mem 0xb190-0xb191,0xb192-0xb1923fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on
> > pci3
> > > em4: Using MSI interrupt
> > > em4: [FILTER]
> > > em4: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:ed:3e:c4
> > >
> >
> > Here is updated patch for HEAD and stable/8.
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch>
> >
> > It seems to work as expected under my limited environments. If
> > you're using multiple Tx queues with em(4) it would be better to
> > disable Tx checksum offloading as driver always have to create a
> > new checksum context for each frame. This will effectively disable
> > pipelined Tx data DMA which in turn greatly slows down Tx
> > performance for small sized frames. The reason driver have to
> > create a new checksum context when it uses multiple Tx queues comes
> > from hardware limitation. The controller tracks only for the last
> > context descriptor that was written such that driver does not know
> > the state of checksum context configured in other Tx queue.
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > ---Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > At 03:36 PM 7/2/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > > >On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:39:22PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > > >> Hi Jack,
> > > >> Just a followup to the email below. I now saw what appears
> > > >> to be the same problem on RELENG_8, but on a different nic and with
> > > >> VLANs.  So not sure if this is a general em problem, a problem
> > > >> specific to some em NICs, or a TSO problem in general.  The issue
> > > >> seemed to be triggered when I added a new vlan based on
> > > >>
> > > >> e...@pci0:14:0:0:class=0x02 card=0x109a15d9
> > > >> chip=0x109a8086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> > > >> vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > > >> device = 'Intel PRO/1000 PL Network Adaptor (82573L)'
> > > >> class  = network
> > > >> subclass   = ethernet
> > > >> cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> > > >> cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
> > > >> cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
> > > >>
> > > >> pci14:  on pcib5
> > > >> em3:  port 0x6000-0x601f
> > > >> mem 0xe830-0xe831 irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci14
> > > >> em3: Using MSI interrupt
> > > >> em3: [FILTER]
> > > >> em3: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:9f:eb:81
> > > >>
> > > >> em3: flags=8943
> > > >> metric 0 mtu 1500
> > > >> options=2098
> > > >> ether 00:30:48:9f:eb:81
> > > >> inet 10.255.255.254 netmask 0xfffc broadcast
> > 10.255.255.255
> > > &

Re: RELENG_7 em problems (and RELENG_8)

2010-08-17 Thread Jack Vogel
I believe the requirement of a context descriptor for most frames in the igb
driver
is just the way the hardware works, I've looked over the Linux driver again
and it
looks like they require the same. I don't believe its a big deal, just the
added
descriptor for the frame.

Jack


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Pyun YongHyeon  wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52:08AM -0700, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:07:11PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > > Hi Jack,
> > > FYI, I am still seeing this same problem on RELENG_8 (code
> > > as of today).  Unfortunately I cant try Pyun's patch since the
> > > underlying code has changed since then.
> > >
> > > e...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x34ec8086 chip=0x10d38086
> > > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> > > vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > > device = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
> > > class  = network
> > > subclass   = ethernet
> > > cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> > > cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
> > > cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
> > > cap 11[a0] = MSI-X supports 5 messages in map 0x1c
> > >
> > > pci3:  on pcib3
> > > em4:  port 0x1000-0x101f
> > > mem 0xb190-0xb191,0xb192-0xb1923fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on
> pci3
> > > em4: Using MSI interrupt
> > > em4: [FILTER]
> > > em4: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:ed:3e:c4
> > >
> >
> > Here is updated patch for HEAD and stable/8.
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch>
> >
> > It seems to work as expected under my limited environments. If
> > you're using multiple Tx queues with em(4) it would be better to
> > disable Tx checksum offloading as driver always have to create a
> > new checksum context for each frame. This will effectively disable
> > pipelined Tx data DMA which in turn greatly slows down Tx
> > performance for small sized frames. The reason driver have to
> > create a new checksum context when it uses multiple Tx queues comes
> > from hardware limitation. The controller tracks only for the last
> > context descriptor that was written such that driver does not know
> > the state of checksum context configured in other Tx queue.
> > Hope this helps.
> >
>
> For igb(4) controllers, it seems we also need a way to avoid
> creating a new checksum context for every Tx frame as we did in
> em(4). Unlike em(4) controllers, igb(4) seems to maintain context
> per queue such that we can safely reuse previously configured
> context for a queue.
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Re: RELENG_7 em problems (and RELENG_8)

2010-08-17 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52:08AM -0700, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:07:11PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > Hi Jack,
> > FYI, I am still seeing this same problem on RELENG_8 (code 
> > as of today).  Unfortunately I cant try Pyun's patch since the 
> > underlying code has changed since then.
> > 
> > e...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x34ec8086 chip=0x10d38086 
> > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> > vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > device = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
> > class  = network
> > subclass   = ethernet
> > cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> > cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
> > cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
> > cap 11[a0] = MSI-X supports 5 messages in map 0x1c
> > 
> > pci3:  on pcib3
> > em4:  port 0x1000-0x101f 
> > mem 0xb190-0xb191,0xb192-0xb1923fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
> > em4: Using MSI interrupt
> > em4: [FILTER]
> > em4: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:ed:3e:c4
> > 
> 
> Here is updated patch for HEAD and stable/8.
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch
> 
> It seems to work as expected under my limited environments. If
> you're using multiple Tx queues with em(4) it would be better to
> disable Tx checksum offloading as driver always have to create a
> new checksum context for each frame. This will effectively disable
> pipelined Tx data DMA which in turn greatly slows down Tx
> performance for small sized frames. The reason driver have to
> create a new checksum context when it uses multiple Tx queues comes
> from hardware limitation. The controller tracks only for the last
> context descriptor that was written such that driver does not know
> the state of checksum context configured in other Tx queue.
> Hope this helps.
> 

For igb(4) controllers, it seems we also need a way to avoid
creating a new checksum context for every Tx frame as we did in
em(4). Unlike em(4) controllers, igb(4) seems to maintain context
per queue such that we can safely reuse previously configured
context for a queue.
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Re: RELENG_7 em problems (and RELENG_8)

2010-08-17 Thread Jack Vogel
Hmmm, interesting, I'll have to have some testing done, maybe for the 574 it
should automagically disable CSUM?

Jack


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Pyun YongHyeon  wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:07:11PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > Hi Jack,
> > FYI, I am still seeing this same problem on RELENG_8 (code
> > as of today).  Unfortunately I cant try Pyun's patch since the
> > underlying code has changed since then.
> >
> > e...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x34ec8086 chip=0x10d38086
> > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> > vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > device = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
> > class  = network
> > subclass   = ethernet
> > cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> > cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
> > cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
> > cap 11[a0] = MSI-X supports 5 messages in map 0x1c
> >
> > pci3:  on pcib3
> > em4:  port 0x1000-0x101f
> > mem 0xb190-0xb191,0xb192-0xb1923fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on
> pci3
> > em4: Using MSI interrupt
> > em4: [FILTER]
> > em4: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:ed:3e:c4
> >
>
> Here is updated patch for HEAD and stable/8.
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch>
>
> It seems to work as expected under my limited environments. If
> you're using multiple Tx queues with em(4) it would be better to
> disable Tx checksum offloading as driver always have to create a
> new checksum context for each frame. This will effectively disable
> pipelined Tx data DMA which in turn greatly slows down Tx
> performance for small sized frames. The reason driver have to
> create a new checksum context when it uses multiple Tx queues comes
> from hardware limitation. The controller tracks only for the last
> context descriptor that was written such that driver does not know
> the state of checksum context configured in other Tx queue.
> Hope this helps.
>
> >
> >
> > ---Mike
> >
> >
> > At 03:36 PM 7/2/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > >On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:39:22PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > >> Hi Jack,
> > >> Just a followup to the email below. I now saw what appears
> > >> to be the same problem on RELENG_8, but on a different nic and with
> > >> VLANs.  So not sure if this is a general em problem, a problem
> > >> specific to some em NICs, or a TSO problem in general.  The issue
> > >> seemed to be triggered when I added a new vlan based on
> > >>
> > >> e...@pci0:14:0:0:class=0x02 card=0x109a15d9
> > >> chip=0x109a8086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> > >> vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > >> device = 'Intel PRO/1000 PL Network Adaptor (82573L)'
> > >> class  = network
> > >> subclass   = ethernet
> > >> cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> > >> cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
> > >> cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
> > >>
> > >> pci14:  on pcib5
> > >> em3:  port 0x6000-0x601f
> > >> mem 0xe830-0xe831 irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci14
> > >> em3: Using MSI interrupt
> > >> em3: [FILTER]
> > >> em3: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:9f:eb:81
> > >>
> > >> em3: flags=8943
> > >> metric 0 mtu 1500
> > >> options=2098
> > >> ether 00:30:48:9f:eb:81
> > >> inet 10.255.255.254 netmask 0xfffc broadcast
> 10.255.255.255
> > >> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT )
> > >> status: active
> > >>
> > >> I had to disable tso, rxcsum and txsum in order to see the devices on
> > >> the other side of the two vlans trunked off em3.  Unfortunately, the
> > >> other sides were switches 100km and 500km away so I didnt have any
> > >> tcpdump capabilities to diagnose the issue.  I had already created
> > >> one vlan off this NIC and all was fine.  A few weeks later, I added a
> > >> new one and I could no longer telnet into the remote switches from
> > >> the local machine But, I could telnet into the switches from
> > >> machines not on the problem box. Hence, it would appear to be a

Re: RELENG_7 em problems (and RELENG_8)

2010-08-17 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:07:11PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> Hi Jack,
> FYI, I am still seeing this same problem on RELENG_8 (code 
> as of today).  Unfortunately I cant try Pyun's patch since the 
> underlying code has changed since then.
> 
> e...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x34ec8086 chip=0x10d38086 
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> device = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
> class  = network
> subclass   = ethernet
> cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
> cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
> cap 11[a0] = MSI-X supports 5 messages in map 0x1c
> 
> pci3:  on pcib3
> em4:  port 0x1000-0x101f 
> mem 0xb190-0xb191,0xb192-0xb1923fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
> em4: Using MSI interrupt
> em4: [FILTER]
> em4: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:ed:3e:c4
> 

Here is updated patch for HEAD and stable/8.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/em.csum_tso.20100817.patch

It seems to work as expected under my limited environments. If
you're using multiple Tx queues with em(4) it would be better to
disable Tx checksum offloading as driver always have to create a
new checksum context for each frame. This will effectively disable
pipelined Tx data DMA which in turn greatly slows down Tx
performance for small sized frames. The reason driver have to
create a new checksum context when it uses multiple Tx queues comes
from hardware limitation. The controller tracks only for the last
context descriptor that was written such that driver does not know
the state of checksum context configured in other Tx queue.
Hope this helps.

> 
> 
> ---Mike
> 
> 
> At 03:36 PM 7/2/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:39:22PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >> Hi Jack,
> >> Just a followup to the email below. I now saw what appears
> >> to be the same problem on RELENG_8, but on a different nic and with
> >> VLANs.  So not sure if this is a general em problem, a problem
> >> specific to some em NICs, or a TSO problem in general.  The issue
> >> seemed to be triggered when I added a new vlan based on
> >>
> >> e...@pci0:14:0:0:class=0x02 card=0x109a15d9
> >> chip=0x109a8086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> >> vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> >> device = 'Intel PRO/1000 PL Network Adaptor (82573L)'
> >> class  = network
> >> subclass   = ethernet
> >> cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> >> cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
> >> cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint max data 128(256) link x1(x1)
> >>
> >> pci14:  on pcib5
> >> em3:  port 0x6000-0x601f
> >> mem 0xe830-0xe831 irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci14
> >> em3: Using MSI interrupt
> >> em3: [FILTER]
> >> em3: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:9f:eb:81
> >>
> >> em3: flags=8943
> >> metric 0 mtu 1500
> >> options=2098
> >> ether 00:30:48:9f:eb:81
> >> inet 10.255.255.254 netmask 0xfffc broadcast 10.255.255.255
> >> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT )
> >> status: active
> >>
> >> I had to disable tso, rxcsum and txsum in order to see the devices on
> >> the other side of the two vlans trunked off em3.  Unfortunately, the
> >> other sides were switches 100km and 500km away so I didnt have any
> >> tcpdump capabilities to diagnose the issue.  I had already created
> >> one vlan off this NIC and all was fine.  A few weeks later, I added a
> >> new one and I could no longer telnet into the remote switches from
> >> the local machine But, I could telnet into the switches from
> >> machines not on the problem box. Hence, it would appear to be a
> >> general TSO issue no ? I disabled tso on the nic (I didnt disable
> >> net.inet.tcp.tso as I forgot about that).. Still nothing. I could
> >> always ping the remote devices, but no tcp services.  I then
> >> remembered this issue from before, so I tried disabling tso on the
> >> NIC. Still nothing. Then I disabled rxcsum and txcsum and I could
> >> then telnet into the remote devices.
> >>
> >> This newly observed issue was from a buildworld on Mon Jun 14
> >> 11:29:12 EDT 2010.
> >>
> >> I will try and recreate the issue locally again to see if I can
> >

Re: NFS stalling on 8.1-STABLE

2010-08-17 Thread Mark Morley


On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:35:50 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick  
wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:35:49AM -0700, Mark Morley wrote:
>> I have five front end web servers that all mount their content from
>> the same server via NFS.  If I stress the link on any one of the
>> machines (eg: copy a large directory with a lot of files to/from the
>> mounted file system) the client will pause.  That is, all processes
>> trying to access that mount will freeze.  The log files with hundreds
>> or thousands of nfs server not responding / is alive again messages.
>> After 60 seconds it returns to normal, unless the load is still there
>> in which case it continues to pause.
>>
>> This has only started happening since I upgraded the client machines
>> to 8.1-STABLE (previously four of them were 8.0 and one was 7.3).  The
>> server is 7.1-RELEASE-p11.  No other changes have taken place in terms
>> of hardware or software or mount options, etc.
>>
>> All nics involved are gigabit em cards, and they are on a private
>> network (web access to the boxes is via an external interface).
>
>Are there any indications in dmesg that the NIC is responsible, e.g.
>interface down/up, etc.?

No, nothing like that.

>Does switching to UDP-based NFS solve the problem for you?

Trying that now for the past 24 hours or so.  Four of the machine seem ok so 
far, but the fifth one has started dropping the mount entirely.  Access to it 
gives an "Input / output error" message.  Forcing a dismount and remounting 
brings it back.

>What OS version (uname -a) and NIC are used on the NFS server?

FreeBSD xxx 7.1-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p11 #0: Wed May 26 03:20:59 PDT 
2010
r...@xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  i386

NICs are em

>Can you please provide the following output from one of the client
>machines running 8.1-STABLE with gigE em(4)?  You can X-out machine
>names, MAC addresses, and IP addresses/netblocks if need be.
>
>* uname -a

FreeBSD xxx 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 27 16:27:44 PDT 2010
r...@xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  amd64

>* ifconfig emX  (where X is the interface number which would be
>  used for NFS)

em0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500
options=209b
ether 00:0e:0c:85:d5:0d
inet 192.168.1.30 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
media: Ethernet 1000baseT 
status: active

>* netstat -idn -I emX

NameMtu Network   Address  Ipkts Ierrs IdropOpkts Oerrs 
 Coll Drop
em01500   00:0e:0c:85:d5:0d 39913814 2 0 39949943 0 
00
em01500 192.168.1.0/2 192.168.1.30  39944016 - - 39949664 - 
--


>* pciconf -lvc  (provide only the data for emX please)

e...@pci0:1:6:0: class=0x02 card=0x13768086 chip=0x107c8086 rev=0x05 
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) rev 5 (82541PI)'
class  = network
subclass   = ethernet
cap 01[dc] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
cap 07[e4] = PCI-X supports 2048 burst read, 1 split transaction


>* vmstat -i

interrupt  total   rate
irq1: atkbd0 239  0
irq16: em0  36746591883
irq18: em1  12658607304
irq21: ohci0   2  0
irq22: ehci0  528002 12
irq23: atapci1   2334936 56
cpu0: timer 83207296   2000
cpu1: timer 83207289   2000
Total  218682962   5256

>* sysctl hw.pci

hw.pci.usb_early_takeover: 1
hw.pci.honor_msi_blacklist: 1
hw.pci.enable_msix: 1
hw.pci.enable_msi: 1
hw.pci.do_power_resume: 1
hw.pci.do_power_nodriver: 0
hw.pci.enable_io_modes: 1
hw.pci.default_vgapci_unit: -1
hw.pci.host_mem_start: 2147483648
hw.pci.mcfg: 1

>* As root, run "sysctl dev.em.X.stats=1" then do "dmesg" and
>  provide the output for NIC statistics (will start with "emX:")

em0: Excessive collisions = 0
em0: Sequence errors = 0
em0: Defer count = 52
em0: Missed Packets = 0
em0: Receive No Buffers = 0
em0: Receive Length Errors = 0
em0: Receive errors = 1
em0: Crc errors = 1
em0: Alignment errors = 0
em0: Collision/Carrier extension errors = 0
em0: RX overruns = 0
em0: watchdog timeouts = 0
em0: RX MSIX IRQ = 0 TX MSIX IRQ = 0 LINK MSIX IRQ = 0
em0: XON Rcvd = 54
em0: XON Xmtd = 0
em0: XOFF Rcvd = 54
em0: XOFF Xmtd = 0
em0: Good Packets Rcvd = 39915088
em0: Good Packets Xmtd = 39951839

Mark
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Re: NFS stalling on 8.1-STABLE

2010-08-17 Thread Mark Morley


On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:11:01 -0400 (EDT) Rick Macklem  
wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have five front end web servers that all mount their content from the same 
>> server via NFS.  If I stress the link on any one of the machines (eg: copy a 
>> large directory with a lot of files to/from the mounted file system) the 
>> client will pause.  That is, all processes trying to access that mount will 
>> freeze.  The log files with hundreds or thousands of nfs server not 
>> responding / is alive again messages. After 60 seconds it returns to normal, 
>> unless the load is still there in which case it continues to pause.
>>
>
>The 60sec delay suggests that the client is doing a TCP reconnect. I'd suggest 
>that you
>look at a packet trace in wireshark (it knows how to decode NFS packets) and 
>see if
>there are new TCP connections (SYN, SYN-ACK,...) being made. If that is what is
>happening, I suspect it is NIC driver related, but it is really hard to say.

I'll try this if/when it happens again.

>If you can try a network interface of a different type (not em) that will 
>check to
>see if it is an em(4) issue.

Unfortunately I don't have any non-em cards around.

>Alternately, you could try turning off the TSO and checksum offload stuff for 
>the
>em(4) and see if that helps.

Hmm, interesting.  The four machines that seem to be working (so far) have 
these enabled by default.  The fifth one has checksums enabled, but not TSO.  
Doesn't appear to support it.

I also tried switching from TCP to UDP.  This seems to be working (so far) on 
four of the clients (which happen to be identical load balanced machines), but 
on the fifth one (which serves a different purpose) I'm getting something 
really weird.  Instead of locking up periodically as before, it's actually 
losing the mount.  For example, a 'df' doesn't include the mounted system.  If 
I try to access the mounted system (with 'ls' for example) I get an "Input / 
output error" message.  I can remount it, but only after I force a dismount.

Mark
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Re: svn commit: r209611 - head/sys/dev/e1000

2010-08-17 Thread Jack Vogel
Cool the first person to actually try and use it :)

Yes, there's one key thing you have to do right now that's not
documented, because of the simplistic PCI structure the guest
has the kernel blacklists it from using MSIX. SO, what you need
to do is set the honor_blacklist (that's not the complete string,
use sysctl -a |grep blacklist to find it) and set that to 0. It needs
to be set at boot.

That should get you running.

Jack


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:18 AM, pluknet  wrote:

> On 1 July 2010 02:13, Jack Vogel  wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Julian Elischer  >wrote:
> >
> >> On 6/30/10 10:26 AM, Jack F Vogel wrote:
> >>
> >>> Author: jfv
> >>> Date: Wed Jun 30 17:26:47 2010
> >>> New Revision: 209611
> >>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/209611
> >>>
> >>> Log:
> >>>   SR-IOV support added to igb
> >>>
> >>>   What this provides is support for the 'virtual function'
> >>>   interface that a FreeBSD VM may be assigned from a host
> >>>   like KVM on Linux, or newer versions of Xen with such
> >>>   support.
> >>>
> >>>   When the guest is set up with the capability, a special
> >>>   limited function 82576 PCI device is present in its virtual
> >>>   PCI space, so with this driver installed in the guest that
> >>>   device will be detected and function nearly like the bare
> >>>   metal, as it were.
> >>>
> >>>   The interface is only allowed a single queue in this configuration
> >>>   however initial performance tests have looked very good.
> >>>
> >>>   Enjoy!!
> >>>
> >>>
> >> do these extra devices turn up in a standard ifconfig output?
> >> in other words, can we assign them to jails using vimage?
> >>
> >>
> > They only show up if configured in the PF host, for instance if using
> Linux
> > and KVM (I did develop and test
> > with Fedora 13) you must load the igb driver there specifying that you
> want
> > vf's created and how many.
> > Next in the management of the guest you need to assign one of these vf
> > devices to the guest. After you
> > do all that and load this igb driver then yes, it will look just like a
> > standard igbX device.
> >
>
> Hi, Jack.
>
> I set up qemu-kvm on openSUSE 11.3
>  with 82576 PCI device as you described.
>
> Guest fails to attach with:
> igb0:  mem
> 0xf206-0xf2063fff,0xf2064000-0xf2067fff at device 5.0 on pci0
> igb0: Unable to allocate bus resource: interrupt
> device_attach: igb0 attach returned 6
>
> i...@pci0:0:5:0:class=0x02 card=0xa03c8086 chip=0x10ca8086
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
>class  = network
>subclass   = ethernet
>cap 11[40] = MSI-X supports 3 messages in map 0x1c
>
> Did  I missed something?
>
> --
> wbr,
> pluknet
>
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Re: svn commit: r209611 - head/sys/dev/e1000

2010-08-17 Thread pluknet
On 1 July 2010 02:13, Jack Vogel  wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>> On 6/30/10 10:26 AM, Jack F Vogel wrote:
>>
>>> Author: jfv
>>> Date: Wed Jun 30 17:26:47 2010
>>> New Revision: 209611
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/209611
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   SR-IOV support added to igb
>>>
>>>   What this provides is support for the 'virtual function'
>>>   interface that a FreeBSD VM may be assigned from a host
>>>   like KVM on Linux, or newer versions of Xen with such
>>>   support.
>>>
>>>   When the guest is set up with the capability, a special
>>>   limited function 82576 PCI device is present in its virtual
>>>   PCI space, so with this driver installed in the guest that
>>>   device will be detected and function nearly like the bare
>>>   metal, as it were.
>>>
>>>   The interface is only allowed a single queue in this configuration
>>>   however initial performance tests have looked very good.
>>>
>>>   Enjoy!!
>>>
>>>
>> do these extra devices turn up in a standard ifconfig output?
>> in other words, can we assign them to jails using vimage?
>>
>>
> They only show up if configured in the PF host, for instance if using Linux
> and KVM (I did develop and test
> with Fedora 13) you must load the igb driver there specifying that you want
> vf's created and how many.
> Next in the management of the guest you need to assign one of these vf
> devices to the guest. After you
> do all that and load this igb driver then yes, it will look just like a
> standard igbX device.
>

Hi, Jack.

I set up qemu-kvm on openSUSE 11.3
 with 82576 PCI device as you described.

Guest fails to attach with:
igb0:  mem
0xf206-0xf2063fff,0xf2064000-0xf2067fff at device 5.0 on pci0
igb0: Unable to allocate bus resource: interrupt
device_attach: igb0 attach returned 6

i...@pci0:0:5:0:class=0x02 card=0xa03c8086 chip=0x10ca8086
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class  = network
subclass   = ethernet
cap 11[40] = MSI-X supports 3 messages in map 0x1c

Did  I missed something?

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Re: freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 370, Issue 2

2010-08-17 Thread FOSS Deluxe
 Well in normal use user applications are the ones that put the load on 
the CPU. The kernel is pretty much lightweight in size and work when non 
kernel intensive tasks are at hand (like gigabit links in the networks, 
etc). The good news is that the kernel will have its own core to play with.


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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Inconsistent IO performance (Ivan Voras)
2. Re: Inconsistent IO performance  (Kevin Oberman)
3. STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault (Alexey Tarasov)
4. Re: Inconsistent IO performance (Jeremy Chadwick)
5. Re: Inconsistent IO performance (Jeremy Chadwick)
6. Re: STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault
   (Kostik Belousov)
7. Re: STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault
   (Alexey Tarasov)
8. Re: STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault
   (Kostik Belousov)
9. Re: STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault
   (Alexey Tarasov)
   10. Re: STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault
   (Kostik Belousov)
   11. Re: STABLE kernel panic: privileged instruction fault
   (Alexey Tarasov)
   12. Re: RELENG_7 em problems (and RELENG_8) (Mike Tancsa)
   13. Performance AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (Vladislav V. Prodan)
   14. Crash in dummynet. (Pawel Tyll)
   15. Re: Crash in dummynet. (Luigi Rizzo)


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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:03:23 +0200
From: Ivan Voras
Subject: Re: Inconsistent IO performance
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On 13.8.2010 18:01, Kevin Oberman wrote:

For some time I have seen very odd issues with IO performance on
8-Stable. Going back to November of last year when 8.0 was released, I
see variations of up to 22% in identical operations. This is not a
degradation as the performance moves up and down.

In 8.0-8.1 span of time there was some work on the ata driver to make it
use MAXPHYS (128 KiB) transfer sizes instead of 64 KiB. Modifying this
will involve changing and recompiling the kernel but if you want to try
something and the hardware is SATA you might try the new AHCI driver
("ada").

http://ivoras.net/blog/tree/2009-11-17.trying-ahci-in-8.0.html




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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:46:38 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman"
Subject: Re: Inconsistent IO performance
To: Ivan Voras
Cc:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Message-ID:<20100816144638.4acf81c...@ptavv.es.net>


From: Ivan Voras
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:03:23 +0200
Sender:owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org

On 13.8.2010 18:01, Kevin Oberman wrote:

For some time I have seen very odd issues with IO performance on
8-Stable. Going back to November of last year when 8.0 was released, I
see variations of up to 22% in identical operations. This is not a
degradation as the performance moves up and down.

In 8.0-8.1 span of time there was some work on the ata driver to make it
use MAXPHYS (128 KiB) transfer sizes instead of 64 KiB. Modifying this
will involve changing and recompiling the kernel but if you want to try
something and the hardware is SATA you might try the new AHCI driver
("ada").

http://ivoras.net/blog/tree/2009-11-17.trying-ahci-in-8.0.html

Thanks. I appreciate the suggestion.  I am running a 8-Stable kernel
from August 9, so I think I should be OK on this. IS there a requirement
to set some parameter in the kernel config to take advantage of this?

While the ThinkPad has a SATA ICH6-M chip-set, it does not provide or any
SATA connections. Both SATA ports a run to a SATA/PATA converter chip
and the only 2 physical connections available are PATA. I am assuming
that this is because 2.5 in. SATA drives were pretty much unavailable
when this system was shipped. This was the last of the T43 series and
was dropped from the product line by Lenovo about a month after I got
it, to be replaced by T60 systems running Core2 chips and using SATA
drives.

Just lousy timing almost 4 years ago.

Thanks again!

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Re: Crash in dummynet.

2010-08-17 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:08:43PM +0200, Pawel Tyll wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm observing recurring crashes with dummynet on 8.1-RELEASE.
> Abnormal things being done on the system are:
> /sbin/ipfw pipe list > pipestats-`date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"` being done
> every minute.
> There are over 2000 pipes in the system.
> 
> Anyway, to the point: is there any resource I could read as to how to
> prepare the system to catch correct debugging info at next crash? What
> other helpful information may I provide?

a backtrace and the detailed version of the ipfw+dummynet
files will help

cheers
luigi
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Crash in dummynet.

2010-08-17 Thread Pawel Tyll
Hello list,

I'm observing recurring crashes with dummynet on 8.1-RELEASE.
Abnormal things being done on the system are:
/sbin/ipfw pipe list > pipestats-`date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"` being done
every minute.
There are over 2000 pipes in the system.

Anyway, to the point: is there any resource I could read as to how to
prepare the system to catch correct debugging info at next crash? What
other helpful information may I provide?

Thanks.


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