On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 14:12 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Been hitting a raw throughput in both directions plus a few other things > on a dual G5 and the driver didn't crash :-) > > I'm seeing a problem though but I'm not sure it's related to your patch, > I'll have to test without it. > > Basically, if I use a slightly modified versio of tridge's socklib (raw > xput test, basically, a tcp connection with one side pushing as fast as > it can a known pattern and the other one just receiving and verifying > the data integrity), it works fine when running only one side (either rx > or tx, doesn't matter). > > But if I start it both ways (that is both a receiver and a sender on the > GMAC box) and the other end is a tg3 (quad g5), then I'm getting a lot > of eth0: RX MAC fifo overflow smac[02045822 but there are other numbers > here every now and then] errors on the sungem side. > > David, could that be the pause stuff not working properly ? > > The link is gigabit and the tg3 side doesn't complain about anything.
I've verified that the problem isn't related to Eric's patch and is there without it... I suppose I just never noticed it before :-) So far, the patch looks solid. I'll let it run overnight and will holler if things went wrong tomorrow. Cheers, Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
