RE: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000

2007-11-14 Thread Leigh Sharpe
LOC: 15012117 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Gospodarek Sent: Thursday, 15 November 2007 3:10 AM To: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000 On Nov 14, 2007 12:26

Re: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000

2007-11-14 Thread Andy Gospodarek
On Nov 14, 2007 12:26 AM, Leigh Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking at this a little further, the stats on the ethernet card (from > ifconfig) tell me that it has transmitted as many bytes as it has > received, which indicates that the bridge itself is not dropping the > packets. I'm back

RE: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000

2007-11-13 Thread Leigh Sharpe
igh. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leigh Sharpe Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2007 12:34 PM To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: RE: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000 >I'll re-run that oprofile. The last

RE: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000

2007-11-13 Thread Leigh Sharpe
ROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leigh Sharpe Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2007 10:11 AM To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: RE: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000 Hi Steven, >You are using ebtables, so that adds a lot of overhead processing the rules. The problem is that

RE: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000

2007-11-13 Thread Leigh Sharpe
hen Hemminger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2007 9:47 AM To: Leigh Sharpe Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000 I find regular PCI bus (32bit) tops out at about 600 Mbits/sec on most machines. For PCI-X (64 bit/133) a realist

RE: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000

2007-11-13 Thread Leigh Sharpe
ber 2007 9:47 AM To: Leigh Sharpe Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000 On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:24:18 +1100 "Leigh Sharpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >First, make sure you have enough bus bandwidth! > > Shouldn't a

Re: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000

2007-11-13 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:24:18 +1100 "Leigh Sharpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >First, make sure you have enough bus bandwidth! > > Shouldn't a PCI bus be up to it? IIRC, PCI has a bus speed of 133MB/s. > I'm only doing 100Mb/s of traffic, less than 1/8 of the bus speed. I > don't have a PCI-X ma

RE: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000

2007-11-13 Thread Leigh Sharpe
CTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2007 5:05 AM To: Marek Kierdelewicz Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000 On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:12:03 +0100 Marek Kierdelewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi All, &g

Re: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000

2007-11-13 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:12:03 +0100 Marek Kierdelewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi All, > > Hi, > > > I have a box with 24 e1000 cards in it. They are configured as 12 > >bridges, each with 2 ports. > > 24 ports of e1000 nics means 24 interrupts used (or shared). Maybe > thats the source of

Re: [Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000

2007-11-13 Thread Marek Kierdelewicz
>Hi All, Hi, > I have a box with 24 e1000 cards in it. They are configured as 12 >bridges, each with 2 ports. 24 ports of e1000 nics means 24 interrupts used (or shared). Maybe thats the source of the problem. Did you notice anything unusual in your logs concerning e1000 nics? >... >CPU utilisa

[Bridge] Rx Buffer sizes on e1000

2007-11-12 Thread Leigh Sharpe
Hi All, I have a box with 24 e1000 cards in it. They are configured as 12 bridges, each with 2 ports. I have found that when the total traffic on the box gets to around 100Mbps or so, it starts dropping packets. As far as I can tell, it's related to the amount of traffic per card, rather than the