At 08:47 PM 11/12/2006, Scott Long wrote:
2. Try compiling in WITNESS and running the test as before, then break
into the debugger as before.  Run 'show locks'.  I'm not sure how
fruitful this will be, WITNESS might make it unbearably slow.
It was in that kernel already

So you're seeing the livelock under load while also having WITNESS enabled? Have you tried your test without WITNESS? What about INVARIANTS?

Sorry, by it was in the kernel already, it was from last nights tests where you asked me to break into the debugger to see what was going on. I figured you would want it in there. My original tests were all without WITNESS and INVARIANTS and they were showing the same behaviour (locking up on the management interface) with and without WITNESS and INVARIANTS


Removing ADAPTIVE_GIANT seems to be very key in this! If I remove it, the box no longer locks up under a high packet rate! Its still a little sluggish on the bge OOB interface, but its not totally locking up like before

Running ifstat -b from the management interface, here is the traffic pattern first with one blast running and then the second kicks in. The Kbps/s out on em1 drops in half, but the box is still responsive and bge1... Certainly responsive enough to see the output of ifstat.



218028.4      0.00      0.00  216389.9      0.47      1.17
218971.2      0.00      0.00  217123.1      0.94      2.34
217754.7      0.00      0.00  215677.2      0.94      1.17
215763.1      0.00      0.00  214578.5      0.47      1.17
217850.3      0.00      0.00  216138.7      1.40      2.34
217668.0      0.00      0.00  215888.3      0.47      1.17
       em0                 em1                 bge1
 Kbps in  Kbps out   Kbps in  Kbps out   Kbps in  Kbps out
217382.3      0.00      0.00  216293.8      1.26      1.59
218247.9  118916.5  234167.3  124972.1      0.47      2.17
215973.4  220459.9  393350.0  54875.64      1.40      2.34
217697.7  210984.5  398543.3  58165.20      0.94      3.09
217183.6  200424.9  399096.5  61845.74      0.94      1.17
217788.7  221212.9  400129.8  53716.38      0.47      1.17
217040.0  204934.2  396628.7  61247.34      1.40      2.34
217105.9  201295.5  399274.1  61710.76      0.94      3.09
215605.6  225012.4  397533.5  53237.31      0.94      1.17
217933.3  200346.4  395949.3  62734.52      0.47      1.17
216783.7  205114.1  395923.0  61042.17      0.94      1.17
217885.7  88513.41  159056.4  151418.9      0.47      1.17
216927.2      0.00      0.00  215450.4      0.94      1.17
217454.1      0.00      0.00  215466.6      0.47      1.17
216810.6      0.00      0.00  215564.2      1.40      1.17
217608.3      0.00      0.00  216061.8      0.47      1.17
217452.8      0.00      0.00  215627.1      0.94      1.17
217185.0      0.00      0.00  216079.7      0.47      1.17


However, if I turn on fastforwarding, its back to the old behavior with it locking up. This was with the stock driver. I will try the same test with

#define EM_FAST_INTR 1

as well as taking out the nfs option from the kernel driver. Anything else to tune with ?

        ---Mike





Scott

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