netdev - Re: ixgbe and mac-vlans problem

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Message-ID: <4BDB57A6.1090400@candelatech.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:20:22 -0700
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	"Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>
CC:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: ixgbe and mac-vlans problem

On 04/30/2010 02:13 PM, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
> Ben Greear wrote:
>> On 04/30/2010 11:00 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Friday 30 April 2010 00:27:39 Ben Greear wrote:
>>>> Basically, we create 50 mac-vlans, with sequential MAC addresses
>>>> and sequential IP addresses, and set up ip rules properly.
>>>>
>>>> The issue is that only 10 or so of the mac-vlans receive other than
>>>> broadcast packets.  The ixgbe NIC doesn't show PROMISC mode.
>>>
>>> I just took a brief look at the driver and noticed that 82599 should
>>> be able to handle 128 entries before going into promisc mode, while
>>> 82598 (the same driver) does 16.
>>>
>>> Maybe the logic for>16 entries is wrong, so you could try forcing
>>> hw->mac.num_rar_entries to 16 for 82599 as well.
>>
>> I think I was actually on an 825998 system when I saw it yesterday,
>> but I have seen similar issues on 82599, though I didn't take time
>> to debug it fully, so it could have been something else.
>>
>> I will double-check the NIC chipset on the system that showed the
>> problem yesterday.
>
> I ran a quick test in my setup with 82599 and was able to pass traffic
> on all 50 mac-vlans without issues. This is on net-next.

For an 82599 system, I can get 127 mac-vlans working out of 500 created.

That NIC also does not go PROMISC with lots (500) of mac-vlans.

Once I put it in promisc mode manually, it works fine.

So, I think whatever logic is supposed to put the NIC into promisc
mode when it overflows it's lookup tables isn't working for ixgbe
in 2.6.31.12.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Thanks,
> Emil


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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