netdev - RE: ixgbe: Replace LRO with GRO

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Message-ID: <EA929A9653AAE14F841771FB1DE5A1365F59F11A2D@rrsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:44:13 -0700
From:	"Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: ixgbe: Replace LRO with GRO

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:07:46AM -0700, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
>> 
>> The test is done by a script that:
>> 
>> 1. checks the connection to the secondary system (ping)
>> 2. copies the test file to the secondary test system (put)
>> 3. copies the same file again from the secondary to the test system
>> (get) 
>> 4. Compares the checksum of the sent vs. the received file
>> 
>> Since I had tcpdump on both ends - I think you should see both
>> session in each. The file I named sender (probably a bit incorrect)
>> is just the capture taken from the primary test system (the one that
>> started the script). This is also the system on which I have the
>> latest git with GRO.    
> 
> Thanks, that makes a lot more sense.  Just to confirm, the second
> part of the sender dump should be the one showing GRO, right?

Yes - the second part is the one where the primary test system is receiving (hence GRO).

 
>>> However, it is not very clear what is causing this loss.  BTW,
>>> did you apply the fix b0059b50b70dc3a908bea4ece2f9494a22200018
>>> (gro: Fix page ref count for skbs freed normally) on both sides?
>>> That one is required to make igb or ixgbe work properly.
>> Ah - doesn't seem like I have this fix. Jeff will have to pull this
>> in our test tree. 
> 
> OK, although this bug should only manifest itself if aggregation
> occurs, which apparently isn't the case according to the dump.
> 
>>> Another thing to try is to disable GSO/TSO on both sides as that
>>> is complicating the interpretation of the dumps.
>> Will do if the fix above doesn't help.
> 
> BTW, when you're testing without GRO are you disabling GRO with
> ethtool or loading an ixgbe driver without the patch? If the latter
> please try it with ethtool (even if you don't have a patched ethtool
> that supports GRO you can always disable RX checksums).
To disable GRO I just recompile ixgbe with "netdev->features |= NETIF_F_GRO" commented out. Is there a patch for ethtool? 

> 
> Maybe I just stuffed up the ixgbe patch.
> 
> Thanks,

Thanks for looking into it.
Emil--
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