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Message-Id: <200901212322.14875.rjw@sisk.pl> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:22:14 +0100 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> To: 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 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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