linux-kernel - Re: TG3 data corruption (TSO ?)

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Date:	Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:20:48 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
Cc:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: TG3 data corruption (TSO ?)

Ok, it seems like we might have more than just the missing barrier in
TG3. Possibly some IOMMU problems on some machines as well.
Unfortunately, I don't have a tg3 on a PCI-X or PCI-E card to test on a
pSeries or some other machine.

[Olof: I've disabled the new U4 DART invalidate code (reverted to the
old one) and added an unconditional barrier to dart_flush and I yet have
to reproduce the problem. I suspect a problem with the DART invalidate
one thingy, maybe a HW problem with the U4 chip. Now regarding the
barrier in flush, we'll talk about it later, I think we might have a
problem with the way we do the DART accesses (they might leak out of the
lock) though I yet have to see that cause a problem in practice due to
the round-robin nature of our allocation algorithm.]

Ben.

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