Re: [Xen-devel] tg3 NIC driver bug in 3.14.x under Xen [and 3 more messages]

2015-04-17 Thread Michael Chan
On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 13:19 -0400, David Miller wrote: > So the gist of the situation is, that NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE can be 'n' in > situations where we might actually need it to be 'y' based upon kernel > comman line boot options given. > > Right? Yes. > > __

Re: [Xen-devel] tg3 NIC driver bug in 3.14.x under Xen [and 3 more messages]

2015-04-16 Thread Michael Chan
On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 09:24 -0300, casca...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: > Yes, this looks like the driver is not syncing the DMA buffers. Unmap is > supposed to synchronize as well. > For small rx packets (< 256 bytes), we sync the DMA buffer before we copy the data to another SKB. For larger pac

Re: [Xen-devel] tg3 NIC driver bug in 3.14.x under Xen [and 3 more messages]

2015-04-09 Thread Michael Chan
On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 18:25 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > root@bedbug:~# ethtool -S eth0 | grep -v ': 0$' > NIC statistics: > rx_octets: 8196868 > rx_ucast_packets: 633 > rx_mcast_packets: 1 > rx_bcast_packets: 123789 > tx_octets: 42854 > tx_ucast_packets: 9 > tx_mc

Re: [Xen-devel] tg3 NIC driver bug in 3.14.x under Xen

2015-04-07 Thread Michael Chan
On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 19:13 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > root@bedbug:~# ethtool -S xenbr0 | grep -v ': 0$' > no stats available > root@bedbug:~# Please provide ethtool -S on the tg3 device. ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://list

Re: [Xen-devel] tg3 NIC driver bug in 3.14.x under Xen

2015-04-07 Thread Michael Chan
On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 16:12 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > The symptom is a very high level of packet loss: around 25-30% (as > seen in `ping'). There don't seem to be any untoward-looking kernel > messages. The lost packets get added to the `errors' counter shown in > ifconfig. Please provide the