On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Dave Boutcher wrote: > If you go back in this thread I had a dead easy unprivileged user-land > testcase > that causes frame loss. We ran into this in a production environment > (and I kind > of glossed over how long it took to figure out why the hell we were dropping > frames...you can only increase rmem_max so many times ;-) OTOH not that many > people use multicast, and even fewer notice a few dropped frames, so the > priority is probably lowish. > > On the other other hand, I'm working in the financial trading space these > days, > where Linux is pretty much king....and they're all about multicast.
here is a patch proposal [RFC] only, I've just briefly tested it for e1000 parts. If you want to give it a spin I would appreciate feedback. [RFC] e1000: fix loss of multicast packets From: Jesse Brandeburg <[email protected]> e1000 (and e1000e, igb, ixgbe, ixgb) all do a series of operations each time a multicast address is added. The flow goes something like 1) stack adds one multicast address 2) stack passes whole current list of unicast and multicast addresses to driver 3) driver clears entire list in hardware 4) driver programs each multicast address using iomem in a loop This was causing multicast packets to be lost during the reprogramming process. reference with test program: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2009/3/14/5160514/thread Thanks to Dave Boutcher for his report and test program. This driver fix prepares an array all at once in memory and programs it in one shot to the hardware, not requiring an "erase" cycle. It would still be possible for packets to be dropped while the receiver is off during reprogramming. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <[email protected]> CC: Dave Boutcher <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c index 26474c9..65697ab 100644 --- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c @@ -2328,6 +2328,12 @@ static void e1000_set_rx_mode(struct net_device *netdev) int mta_reg_count = (hw->mac_type == e1000_ich8lan) ? E1000_NUM_MTA_REGISTERS_ICH8LAN : E1000_NUM_MTA_REGISTERS; + u32 *mcarray = kzalloc(512, GFP_ATOMIC); + + if (!mcarray) { + DPRINTK(PROBE, ERR, "memory allocation failed\n"); + return; + } if (hw->mac_type == e1000_ich8lan) rar_entries = E1000_RAR_ENTRIES_ICH8LAN; @@ -2394,22 +2400,38 @@ static void e1000_set_rx_mode(struct net_device *netdev) } WARN_ON(uc_ptr != NULL); - /* clear the old settings from the multicast hash table */ - - for (i = 0; i < mta_reg_count; i++) { - E1000_WRITE_REG_ARRAY(hw, MTA, i, 0); - E1000_WRITE_FLUSH(); - } - /* load any remaining addresses into the hash table */ for (; mc_ptr; mc_ptr = mc_ptr->next) { + u32 hash_reg, hash_bit, mta; hash_value = e1000_hash_mc_addr(hw, mc_ptr->da_addr); - e1000_mta_set(hw, hash_value); + hash_reg = (hash_value >> 5) & 0x7F; + hash_bit = hash_value & 0x1F; + mta = (1 << hash_bit); + mcarray[hash_reg] |= mta; } + /* write the hash table completely, write from bottom to avoid + * stupid write combining chipsets, and flushing each write */ + for (i = mta_reg_count - 1; i >= 0 ; i--) { + /* If we are on an 82544 and we are trying to write an odd + * offset in the MTA, save off the previous entry before + * writing and restore the old value after writing. + */ + if ((hw->mac_type == e1000_82544) && ((i & 1) == 1)) { + u32 temp = E1000_READ_REG_ARRAY(hw, MTA, (i - 1)); + E1000_WRITE_REG_ARRAY(hw, MTA, i, mcarray[i]); + E1000_WRITE_REG_ARRAY(hw, MTA, (i - 1), temp); + } else { + E1000_WRITE_REG_ARRAY(hw, MTA, i, mcarray[i]); + } + } + E1000_WRITE_FLUSH(); + if (hw->mac_type == e1000_82542_rev2_0) e1000_leave_82542_rst(adapter); + + kfree(mcarray); } /* Need to wait a few seconds after link up to get diagnostic information from ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
