netdev - Re: UDP multicast packet loss not reported if TX ring overrun?

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Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:46:12 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
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CC:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>,
	Nivedita Singhvi <niv@...ibm.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UDP multicast packet loss not reported if TX ring overrun?

Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> Christoph Lameter a écrit :
>> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 18:13 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What about ethtool -S ? Does it report any errors?
>>>> Neither. This is is a broadcom bnx2 NIC.
>>> Are you sure the packets are dropped at the sender?
>> Yes I am sending 400k messages from the app and the receiver only gets
>> 341k @300 byte (which is the line rate). There is no way that the 400k get
>> over the line. Also if I reduce SO_SNDBUF then both receiver and
>> sender get down to 341k.
>>
>> I added the output of ethtool -S at the end.
>>
>> The mcast tool can be had from http://gentwo.org/ll or from my directory
>> on www.kernel.org.
>>
> 
> # gcc -v
> Using built-in specs.
> Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
> Configured with: ../gcc-4.4.1/configure --enable-languages=c,c++ --prefix=/usr
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 4.4.1 (GCC)
> # pwd
> /opt/src/lldiag-0.14
> # make
> gcc -Wall -omcast mcast.c -lrt -lm
> mcast.c: In function ‘set_ip’:
> mcast.c:121: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘htons’
> mcast.c: In function ‘build_pattern_array’:
> mcast.c:168: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘htonl’
> /tmp/cc4sYCDr.o: In function `lock':
> mcast.c:(.text+0xcad): undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [mcast] Error 1
> 
> 
> I have no idea where is defined sync_fetch_and_add
> 

Doh...

Dont bother, I had to add "-march=i686" to CFLAGS to get "xadd" support

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