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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:51:07 -0800
From: "Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
"e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net"
<e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: igb regression (interface hang) with latest -git
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>>
>>>> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> One other piece of info (in addition to what Bruce requested)
>>>>>> that would be useful is after you've done ifconfig eht0 up, cat
>>>>>> /proc/interrupts | grep eth0 and send that output (I want to see
>>>>>> your MSI-X configuration).
>>>>>
>>>>> here it is:
>>>>>
>>>>> 79: 35 0 9836 7451 1197
>>>>> 1360 766 0 2196 995 770
>>>>> 0 2051 863 4714 1879 PCI-MSI-edge
>>>>> eth0-tx-0 80: 2335 0 2718 3651
>>>>> 5024 9850 533 0 1405 1095
>>>>> 0 0 4421 1229 0 2002
>>>>> PCI-MSI-edge eth0-tx-1 81: 33 0 0
>>>>> 5478 1125 6585 4865 6306 0
>>>>> 0 0 714 3757 0 2662
>>>>> 1020 PCI-MSI-edge eth0-tx-2 82: 21 1428
>>>>> 3136 3783 4249 6833 0 0
>>>>> 4175 0 0 1465 1940 1780
>>>>> 6286 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0-tx-3 83: 40
>>>>> 0 0 4788 0 1486 0
>>>>> 7185 3998 8637 1409 6785 0
>>>>> 0 0 10060 PCI-MSI-edge eth0-rx-0 84:
>>>>> 70 1441 2606 1342 0 1678
>>>>> 4301 1839 0 6507 6910 16470
>>>>> 0 1484 1004 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0-rx-1
>>>>> 85: 40 1368 0 3560 5022
>>>>> 2040 5 1719 0 2037 956
>>>>> 40 0 17264 6456 2833 PCI-MSI-edge
>>>>> eth0-rx-2 86: 44 414 5 1164
>>>>> 30 4513 4595 1542 0 10033
>>>>> 1151 0 4961 4203 0 10703
>>>>> PCI-MSI-edge eth0-rx-3 87: 1 0 0
>>>>> 0 0 0 0 0 0
>>>>> 0 0 0 0 0 0
>>>>> 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
>>>>
>>>> btw., i turned off CONFIG_PCI_MSI and that worked around the
>>>> interface
>>>> hang - the box has 40 minutes uptime now and still no hang. (it
>>>> would hang
>>>> within 5 minutes previously)
>>>>
>>>> can test the revert of any of these commits:
>>>>
>>>> e42e4ba: igb: fix anoying type mismatch warning on rx/tx queue
>>>> sizing 8d25332: igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled.
>>>> 26bc19e: igb: re-order queues to support cleaner use of ivar on
>>>> 82576 0e014cb: igb: defeature tx head writeback
>>>> 678c610: drivers/net/igb: remove dead code (function
>>>> 'igb_read_pci_cfg') 908a7a1: net: Remove unused netdev arg from
>>>> some NAPI interfaces.
>>>> ea943d4: igb: fixup AER with proper error handling
>>>> 5e8427e: igb: Correctly determine pci-e function number in virtual
>>>> environment
>>>> b4557be: igb: update handling of RCTL for smaller buffer sizes
>>>> cb7b48f: igb/e1000e: Naming interrupt vectors
>>>> 40a914f: igb: Add support for pci-e Advanced Error Reporting
>>>> 527d47c: igb: link up/down messages must follow a specific format
>>>> 5b9ab2e: Merge branch 'master' of
>>>> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 69d728b:
>>>> igb: loopback bits not correctly cleared from RCTL register
>>>> 9b07f3d: igb: remove unneeded bit refrence when enabling jumbo
>>>> frames
>>>> f5f4cf0: igb: do not use phy ops in ethtool test cleanup for
>>>> non-copper parts 0082982: netdev: add more functions to netdevice
>>>> ops 68fd991: igb: Fix tx/rx_ring_count parameters for igb on
>>>> suspend/resume/ring resize b2d5653: igb: simplify swap in
>>>> clean_rx_irq if using packet split 2e5c692: igb: convert to
>>>> net_device_ops 198d6ba: Merge branch 'master' of
>>>> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 4cf1653:
>>>> netdevice: safe convert to netdev_priv() #part-2
>>>> babcda7: drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.
>>>> 7c510e4: net: convert more to %pM
>>>>
>>>> i had a quick look at all of them but none seem to have a direct
>>>> connection to MSI-X interrupt generation.
>>>>
>>>> There's a couple of ones that could have side effects:
>>>>
>>>> Maybe this one:
>>>>
>>>> 26bc19e: igb: re-order queues to support cleaner use of ivar on
>>>> 82576
>>>>
>>>> due to its sheer commit size and due to its impact on the hw
>>>> programming.
>>>>
>>>> or:
>>>>
>>>> 0e014cb: igb: defeature tx head writeback
>>>>
>>>> Might have some side-effect on tx-completion IRQs and might tickle
>>>> firmware bugs?
>>>>
>>>> Or:
>>>>
>>>> 5e8427e: igb: Correctly determine pci-e function number in
>>>> virtual environment
>>>>
>>>> while it should have no impact on a native kernel, it does change
>>>> the PCI
>>>> config space access sequences.
>>>>
>>>> Or maybe:
>>>>
>>>> 69d728b: igb: loopback bits not correctly cleared from RCTL
>>>> register
>>>>
>>>> as this impacts the PCI programming too.
>>>>
>>>> But ... i dont really know this code so i'm guessing around.
>>>
>>> Well, AER (Advanced Error Reporting) is currently broken w/ MSI-X,
>>> so maybe this one:
>>>
>>> 40a914f: igb: Add support for pci-e Advanced Error Reporting
>>
>> ah, yeah, that makes sense. I discarded that commit because i was
>> unsure whether this box has AER and the boot log said:
>>
>> calling aer_service_init+0x0/0x20 @ 1
>> initcall aer_service_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 61 usecs
>>
>> shouldnt it have printed something if AER was available?
>
> The driver doesn't seem to print anything on success as far as I can
> see. It only reports faliures, apparently.
>
> Thanks,
> Rafael
I have noticed that too after going through the logs on one of the Nahalem systems I have here. It might just be best to disable AER in the kernel if it isn't functional on the system and see if that helps to clear up the issue.
I am leaning torward some external influence affecting the igb driver. Of the changes I made the only one I could really think of that would have much affect on MSI-X interrupts would be queue reordering, but that should have little to no effect on 82575 parts as it was intended to only reorder queues on 82576, in addition I would expect an immediate issue since the configuration is pretty much static after the queues are allocated. The only other patch that could even have a remote possiblity would be the TX head writeback defeature, but I would only expect that one to affect tx.
Thanks,
Alex
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