netdev - Re: Bug#565404: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: atl1e: TSO is broken

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Message-Id: <20100125.163612.582489483209420341.anders@netinsight.net>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:36:12 +0100 (CET)
From:	Anders Boström <anders@...insight.net>
To:	Jie.Yang@...eros.com
Cc:	ben@...adent.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	565404@...s.debian.org, Xiong.Huang@...eros.com
Subject: Re: Bug#565404: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: atl1e: TSO is broken

>>>>> "JY" == Jie Yang <Jie.Yang@...eros.com> writes:

 JY> Anders Boström <anders@...insight.net> wrote:
 >> Cc: ben@...adent.org.uk; netdev@...r.kernel.org;
 >> 565404@...s.debian.org; Xiong Huang
 >> Subject: Re: Bug#565404: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: atl1e:
 >> TSO is broken

 >> One strange observation is that I can only reproduce this
 >> problem when transmitting data from a NFS-server using TCP
 >> with Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114.
 >> 
 >> I've tried to reproduce the problem using test-programs, like
 >> nttcp and netpipe, without any success. One observation is
 >> that the test-programs *only* generates 1500 bytes
 >> IP-packets. When the NFS-server sends data, a sequence of
 >> 1500 bytes IP-packets are generated, ending with a shorter
 >> packet. And this last packet in the sequence has 1500 in the
 >> IP-header length field, but is shorter.
 >> 
 JY> following is my test cese,

 JY> a nfs server server with ar8131chip, device id 1063. export /tmp/ dir as the nfs share directory,
 JY> the client, mount the server_ip:/tmp to local dir /mnt/nfs, ust a python script to write and read data on the
 JY> /mnt/nfs/testnfs.log. it works fine.

OK, the device-ID in our NFS-server is 1026, rev. b0. So it is
possible that the problem is specific to that chip/version.

 JY> Can you give me some advice on how to reproduce this bug??

The only suggestion I have is to try to find a board with a 1026-chip
on it.

My test-case is just copy of a 1 Gbyte file from the
NFS-server to /dev/null , after making sure that the file isn't cached
on the client by reading huge amounts of other data.

/ Anders
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