Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-14 Thread Ben Greear
David S. Miller wrote: From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:41:02 -0800 So, I am asking the TSO folks: Will you pay any attention to a bug report against 2.6.13.2, or would I just be wasting my time? If the answer is yes, then I'll get on it..otherwise, I'll wait un

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-10 Thread Ben Greear
Stephen Hemminger wrote: On It is not necessarily the most efficient way to generate bulk traffic, but I think it is a valid test. I use non-blocking IO and poll(). It is true that both sides may have full TX and/or RX buffers, but the code still works fine. I can adjust my tool to request a

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-10 Thread Rick Jones
I can say that "stock" netperf has no _single-connection_ bidirectional tests, As I think more about it, that statement of mine is slightly incorrect. If one configures netperf2 with --enable-burst, and are careful about the product of the burst size and request/response sizes wrt the size of

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-10 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On > It is not necessarily the most efficient way to generate bulk traffic, > but I think it is a valid test. > > I use non-blocking IO and poll(). It is true that both sides may have > full TX and/or RX buffers, but the code still works fine. I can adjust > my tool to request any speed any eith

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-10 Thread Ben Greear
Rick Jones wrote: Ben, as for your test I think something is messed up in your patches, as no one else seems to be reporting your freezes. I will run some tests on standard kernels if I can still reproduce on 2.6.14. If it is bugs in my patches, it's subtle..since turning off TSO fixes it.

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-10 Thread Rick Jones
Ben, as for your test I think something is messed up in your patches, as no one else seems to be reporting your freezes. I will run some tests on standard kernels if I can still reproduce on 2.6.14. If it is bugs in my patches, it's subtle..since turning off TSO fixes it. IIRC you said you h

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Greear
Jesse Brandeburg wrote: On 11/9/05, Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am frusterated that the linux kernel seems to be unstable for high levels of TCP traffic for very common hardware (e1000). Is anyone doing tests that involve high levels of bi-directional TCP traffic using TSO? If so,

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
On 11/9/05, Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am frusterated that the linux kernel seems to be > unstable for high levels of TCP traffic for very common > hardware (e1000). > > Is anyone doing tests that involve high levels of bi-directional > TCP traffic using TSO? If so, please let me kn

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread David S. Miller
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:39:38 -0800 > I will give it a try..as soon as the next stable point release comes > out..seems there are some networking bug fixes coming soon if I recall > correctly. Just a UDP zero-length transfer bug fix from Herbert, nothing TCP

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Greear
David S. Miller wrote: From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:41:02 -0800 So, I am asking the TSO folks: Will you pay any attention to a bug report against 2.6.13.2, or would I just be wasting my time? If the answer is yes, then I'll get on it..otherwise, I'll wait un

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread David S. Miller
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:41:02 -0800 > So, I am asking the TSO folks: Will you pay any attention to > a bug report against 2.6.13.2, or would I just be wasting my > time? > > If the answer is yes, then I'll get on it..otherwise, I'll wait untill > I move to

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Greear
Rick Jones wrote: It appears that I can (almost?) completedly deadlock a TCP connection when using TSO on 2.6.13.2. My test involves trying to send 200Mbps between two interfaces. With TSO enabled (ie, the default for e1000 NICs), in less than 1 minute, there are no more packets transmitted,

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread Rick Jones
It appears that I can (almost?) completedly deadlock a TCP connection when using TSO on 2.6.13.2. My test involves trying to send 200Mbps between two interfaces. With TSO enabled (ie, the default for e1000 NICs), in less than 1 minute, there are no more packets transmitted, though it does run ni

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Greear
Ian McDonald wrote: What about latest netdev tree rather than 2.6.13.2? There have been changes going on... Yep..but the answer is always to try one later build..and it takes time (I reported similar problems in 2.6.11 and was told that 2.6.12 (or maybe .13) was going to fix it...) I am afraid

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:22:59AM +1300, Ian McDonald wrote: > > > What about latest netdev tree rather than 2.6.13.2? > > > > > > There have been changes going on... > > > > Yep..but the answer is always to try one later build..and > > it takes time (I reported similar problems in 2.6.11 and was

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread Ian McDonald
> > > > What about latest netdev tree rather than 2.6.13.2? > > > > There have been changes going on... > > Yep..but the answer is always to try one later build..and > it takes time (I reported similar problems in 2.6.11 and was > told that 2.6.12 (or maybe .13) was going to fix it...) > I am afrai

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Greear
Ian McDonald wrote: It appears that I can (almost?) completedly deadlock a TCP connection when using TSO on 2.6.13.2. My test involves trying to send 200Mbps between two interfaces. With TSO enabled (ie, the default for e1000 NICs), in less than 1 minute, there are no more packets transmitted,

Re: [Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread Ian McDonald
> It appears that I can (almost?) completedly deadlock a > TCP connection when using TSO on 2.6.13.2. My test involves > trying to send 200Mbps between two interfaces. With TSO enabled (ie, the > default > for e1000 NICs), in less than 1 minute, there are no more packets transmitted, > though it

[Fwd: TSO and 2.6.13.2]

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Greear
Sent to wrong list first time... Original Message Subject: TSO and 2.6.13.2 Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:44:05 -0800 From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Candela Technologies To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It appears that I can (almost?) completedly dea