[E1000-devel] 82599EB - PCI Passthrough gives Error -5

2011-03-24 Thread Robert Dunkley
I'm trying to setup some X520-DA2s with one copper cable and one Intel LR SFP in each for standard PF PCI device pass through. The same systems are working OK with virtual function pass through of 82576 ports so I think the Xen configuration is fine. The 82599EB works correctly in Dom0, appears

[E1000-devel] [PATCH 0/1] race-condition with eop in e1000/e1000e, e1000_clean_tx_irq()

2011-03-24 Thread Dmitry Skorodumov
Hi Hope that posting to mail-list is ok We are observing kernel-panics on the linux running in SMP Virtual Machines with emulated e1000 network adapter (82545EM controller). This panics happens quite frequently (once per 30 minutes) on the host with 16 CPUs and 10VMs (each has 4 virtual CPU).

[E1000-devel] [PATCH 1/1] fixed race between eop read and DD-check for e1000 in e1000_clean_tx_irq()

2011-03-24 Thread Dmitry Skorodumov
if between eop = tx_ring-buffer_info[i].next_to_watch and check for DD-status CPU is interrupted and another CPU queues send and hardware completes the send, then we next_to_watch changes and we go inside cycle with invalid eop with buffer_info-skb NULL. The solution is to reread eop at after

[E1000-devel] HA: [PATCH 1/1] fixed race between eop read and DD-check for e1000 in e1000_clean_tx_irq()

2011-03-24 Thread Dmitry Skorodumov
Hm, since attaches are not allowed, here is the patch as text.. And.. what is the correct way to submit a patch? because I suspect that just copy and paste will not work Dmitry if between eop = tx_ring-buffer_info[i].next_to_watch and check for

Re: [E1000-devel] igb/ixgbe No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2011-03-24 Thread Robin Humble
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:40:00AM -0700, Williams, Mitch A wrote: From: Brandeburg, Jesse [snip] these messages are due to irqbalance moving the interrupt, combined with a kernel bug that is not handling the per-cpu stuff correctly for the irq I can't seem to find the patch that is relevant in

Re: [E1000-devel] 82599EB - PCI Passthrough gives Error -5

2011-03-24 Thread Rose, Gregory V
-Original Message- From: Robert Dunkley [mailto:rob...@saq.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:22 AM To: E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Linux NICS Subject: [E1000-devel] 82599EB - PCI Passthrough gives Error -5 I'm trying to setup some X520-DA2s with one copper cable

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Re: [E1000-devel] Performance deterioration under load - 82599EB

2011-03-24 Thread Sanjay Rao
Under load, doing a ifconfig ethX down and up brings down the performance of the NIC to 1/1000th of the initial number. Could you provide more detail about the type of traffic you were running? After the reset is the interface operational at all - i.e. is the performance degradation the

Re: [E1000-devel] Performance deterioration under load - 82599EB

2011-03-24 Thread Tantilov, Emil S
-Original Message- From: Sanjay Rao [mailto:s...@verisign.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:56 PM To: Tantilov, Emil S Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Performance deterioration under load - 82599EB Under load, doing a ifconfig ethX down and up brings down the