Re: [E1000-devel] [patch 3/3] Add an i2cbb kernel module parameter

2014-12-11 Thread Jean-Hugues Deschenes
Hi Bernhard, + This query shows me only your mail as result, so AFAICS it's bit-banged I2C, not + bit-bagned (the n must be before the g) and a grep in the Kernel source only + finds banged: + + https://www.google.com/search?q=%22bit-bagned%22+I2c Quite right! I'll change that in the relevant

[E1000-devel] ixgbe/linux/sparc perf issues

2014-12-11 Thread Sowmini Varadhan
e1000-developers, [Cc-ing sparclinux due to the iommu observations..] I'm looking at an iperf issue running over ixgbe on linux on a sparc T5-2 platform (64 cpu) where we cannot get to line-speed (peaks at 3 Gbps on a 10Gbps link) and I'm trying to get to the bottom of this. I've run iperf

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe/linux/sparc perf issues

2014-12-11 Thread David Miller
From: Sowmini Varadhan sowmini.varad...@oracle.com Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:45:42 -0500 1. lockstat and perf report that iommu-lock is the hot-lock (in a typical instance, I get about 21M contentions out of 27M acquisitions, 25 us avg wait time). Even if I fix this issue (see below), I

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe use only one queue for outgoing vlan when AtrSampleRate=0

2014-12-11 Thread Skidmore, Donald C
If you have ATR disabled we will spread the flows to different queues based on their RSS hash. Could it be that you are only seeing one flow, in which case it would always be directed to one queue? Thanks, -Don Skidmore donald.c.skidm...@intel.com -Original Message- From: Viktor

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe/linux/sparc perf issues

2014-12-11 Thread Sowmini Varadhan
On (12/11/14 15:09), David Miller wrote: The real overhead is unavoidable due to the way the hypervisor access to the IOMMU is implemented in sun4v. If we had direct access to the hardware, we could avoid all of the real overhead in %99 of all IOMMU mappings, as we do for pre-sun4v

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe/linux/sparc perf issues

2014-12-11 Thread David Miller
From: Sowmini Varadhan sowmini.varad...@oracle.com Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:21:00 -0500 All this may be true, but it would also be true for Solaris, which manages to do line-speed (for the exact same setup), so there must be some other bottleneck going on? They have DMA mapping interfaces

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe/linux/sparc perf issues

2014-12-11 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:24:17 -0500 (EST) From: Sowmini Varadhan sowmini.varad...@oracle.com Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:21:00 -0500 All this may be true, but it would also be true for Solaris, which manages to do line-speed (for the exact same setup),

[E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30

2014-12-11 Thread Chris J Arges
Attached is a patch that fixes compile issues where 57a7744e09867ebcfa0ccf1d6d529caa7728d552 was backported to kernel versions eariler than 3.15. Please accept this patch for your next stable update. Thanks, --chris j arges

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30

2014-12-11 Thread Fujinaka, Todd
First, thanks for the patch. You'll have to include it in the text of the message because it gets stripped here. Unfortunately, we may not be able to take it (depending on what you did, the attachment gets stripped) because you guys don't put any identifiers for your kernel (like a define that

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30

2014-12-11 Thread Chris J Arges
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 09:46:15PM +, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: First, thanks for the patch. You'll have to include it in the text of the message because it gets stripped here. Todd, I've inlined the patch below. Unfortunately, we may not be able to take it (depending on what you did, the

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30

2014-12-11 Thread Chris J Arges
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 09:46:15PM +, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: First, thanks for the patch. You'll have to include it in the text of the message because it gets stripped here. Unfortunately, we may not be able to take it (depending on what you did, the attachment gets stripped) because

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30

2014-12-11 Thread Allan, Bruce W
-Original Message- From: Chris J Arges [mailto:chris.j.ar...@canonical.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 2:01 PM To: Fujinaka, Todd Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30 On Thu, Dec

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30

2014-12-11 Thread Chris J Arges
On 12/11/2014 04:33 PM, Allan, Bruce W wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris J Arges [mailto:chris.j.ar...@canonical.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 2:01 PM To: Fujinaka, Todd Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30

2014-12-11 Thread Allan, Bruce W
-Original Message- From: Chris J Arges [mailto:chris.j.ar...@canonical.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 2:45 PM To: Allan, Bruce W; Fujinaka, Todd Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30

2014-12-11 Thread Chris J Arges
On 12/11/2014 05:17 PM, Allan, Bruce W wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris J Arges [mailto:chris.j.ar...@canonical.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 2:45 PM To: Allan, Bruce W; Fujinaka, Todd Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30

2014-12-11 Thread Allan, Bruce W
-Original Message- From: Chris J Arges [mailto:chris.j.ar...@canonical.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 4:05 PM To: Allan, Bruce W; Fujinaka, Todd Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30

2014-12-11 Thread Chris J Arges
snip I'm not running Ubuntu, I'm looking at the 3.16.4-based kernel source in our local LXR database reportedly from the Ubuntu 14.10 linux-source package. IIRC, I ran 'make modules_prepare' using the 14.10 kernel config file which is supposed to generate the appropriate header files

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe use only one queue for outgoing vlan when AtrSampleRate=0

2014-12-11 Thread Viktor Khomyuk
No, I generate traffic with random src ip and src port (but same dst ip and dst port). So I have many flows. 12.12.2014 2:10, Skidmore, Donald C пишет: If you have ATR disabled we will spread the flows to different queues based on their RSS hash. Could it be that you are only seeing one

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