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

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Date:	Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:25:58 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Anders Boström <anders@...insight.net>
Cc:	Jie.Yang@...eros.com, 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

On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 09:34 +0100, Anders Boström wrote:
> >>>>> "JY" == Jie Yang <Jie.Yang@...eros.com> writes:
> 
>  JY> Anders Boström <anders@...insight.net> wrote:
> 
>  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> oops, its my mistake in writing, my case is 1026 device ID
> 
>  >> 
>  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.
>  >> 
>  JY> just to check, if the kernel version is 2.6.26-2 ??
> 
> I've tested with
> Debian linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 version 2.6.26-19lenny2,
> Debian linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-amd64 version 2.6.30-8~bpo50+2 and
> kernel.org 2.6.30.10 amd64 with ethtool patch for setting of tso. Same
> result.

Does booting with the kernel parameter 'pci=nomsi' avoid the problem?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.

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