* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there's a different type of regression now: under high load i dont
get a crash, i get a hung interface instead. No error packets or
other weird interface state - just a hung interface. [...]
the interface stats do not change from that point on:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:D4:DC:41:12
inet addr:10.0.1.12 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:14976 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3928743 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1028544 (1004.4 KiB) TX bytes:4126766510 (3.8 GiB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xa000
and the irq count does not change either:
16:8163463148 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth1
no matter what i do to the interface. So it's completely stuck. No
kernel messages either - apparently nv_tx_timeout() never triggered.
i've attached an ethtool dump, ifconfig output, interrupts output and
lspci output of such a hang. Does the ethtool dump make any sense to
you? The driver is -rc6 plus the changes below. (but the hang looks
exactly the same that i got with an unmodified driver. the
optimization_tweak is a new change too - it drastically improves the
performance and scalability of the driver btw., by not letting it do
100-200K irqs/sec (!).)
Ingo
Index: linux/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
===
--- linux.orig/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
+++ linux/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ struct fe_priv {
* Maximum number of loops until we assume that a bit in the irq mask
* is stuck. Overridable with module param.
*/
-static int max_interrupt_work = 5;
+static int max_interrupt_work = 50;
/*
* Optimization can be either throuput mode or cpu mode
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ enum {
NV_OPTIMIZATION_MODE_THROUGHPUT,
NV_OPTIMIZATION_MODE_CPU
};
-static int optimization_mode = NV_OPTIMIZATION_MODE_THROUGHPUT;
+static int optimization_mode = NV_OPTIMIZATION_MODE_CPU;
/*
* Poll interval for timer irq
@@ -1902,6 +1902,11 @@ static void nv_tx_done(struct net_device
np-stats.tx_carrier_errors++;
np-stats.tx_errors++;
} else {
+ if (!np-get_tx_ctx-skb) {
+ printk(get_tx: %ld, put_tx:
%ld\n, (long)(np-get_tx_ctx - np-first_tx_ctx), (long)(np-put_tx_ctx -
np-first_tx_ctx));
+ WARN_ON(1);
+ break;
+ }
np-stats.tx_packets++;
np-stats.tx_bytes +=
np-get_tx_ctx-skb-len;
}
@@ -1917,6 +1922,11 @@ static void nv_tx_done(struct net_device
np-stats.tx_carrier_errors++;
np-stats.tx_errors++;
} else {
+ if (!np-get_tx_ctx-skb) {
+ printk(get_tx: %ld, put_tx:
%ld\n, (long)(np-get_tx_ctx - np-first_tx_ctx), (long)(np-put_tx_ctx -
np-first_tx_ctx));
+ WARN_ON(1);
+ break;
+ }
np-stats.tx_packets++;
np-stats.tx_bytes +=
np-get_tx_ctx-skb-len;
}
@@ -3108,9 +3118,17 @@ static int nv_napi_poll(struct net_devic
int retcode;
if (np-desc_ver == DESC_VER_1 || np-desc_ver == DESC_VER_2) {
+ spin_lock_irqsave(np-lock, flags);
+ nv_tx_done(dev);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(np-lock, flags);
+
pkts = nv_rx_process(dev, limit);
retcode = nv_alloc_rx(dev);
} else {
+ spin_lock_irqsave(np-lock, flags);
+ nv_tx_done_optimized(dev, np-tx_ring_size);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(np-lock, flags);
+
pkts = nv_rx_process_optimized(dev, limit);
retcode = nv_alloc_rx_optimized(dev);
}
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