Re: em driver regression

2010-04-14 Thread Jack Vogel
Oh, didn't realize you were running the lem code :) Will make the changes shortly, thanks for your debugging efforts. Jack On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Mikolaj Golub to.my.troc...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:40:03 +0300 Mikolaj Golub wrote: MG Hi, MG Today I have

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-09 Thread Jack Vogel
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Pyun YongHyeon pyu...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:17:07AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 07:07 PM 4/8/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 02:06:09PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: Only one device support by em does multiqueue right

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Vogel
Brandon, Did the checkin of yesterday afternoon resolve the problem of the win7 systems in VirtualBox? I will continue to look at this today. Jack On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Vogel
Mike, I noticed this connection is only 100Mb, that isn't accidental? And, is it possible for you to check a connection at 1Gb and see if the watchdogs don't happen. My test engineer is running this code, and we are having trouble repro'ing the issue, so any clues might help. Is the kernel 64 or

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Vogel
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: Mike, I noticed this connection is only 100Mb, that isn't accidental? And, is it possible for you to check a connection at 1Gb and see

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Vogel
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Vogel
, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: At 12:52 PM 4/8/2010, Jack Vogel wrote: Mike, I noticed this connection is only 100Mb, that isn't accidental? And, is it possible for you to check a connection at 1Gb and see if the watchdogs don't happen. My test engineer is running

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Vogel
LOL, what timing :) On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Pyun YongHyeon pyu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 10:46:22AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: OK, some more data... It seems dhclient is getting upset as well since the updated driver Apr 8 10:28:37 ich10 dhclient[1383]:

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Vogel
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Pyun YongHyeon pyu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 10:46:22AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: OK, some more data... It seems dhclient is getting upset as well since the updated driver Apr 8 10:28:37 ich10 dhclient[1383]: DHCPDISCOVER on em0 to

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Vogel
You know, I'm wondering if the so-called ALTQ fix, which makes the TX start always queue is causing the problem on that side? Jack On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Pyun YongHyeon pyu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 08

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Vogel
Bigger question is will it fix Brandon's VirtualBox issue?? Jack On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: At 02:17 PM 4/8/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: Try this patch. It should fix the issue. It seems Jack forgot to strip CRC bytes as old em(4) didn't strip it,

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Vogel
Try the code I just checked in, it puts in the CRC stripping, but also tweaks the TX code, this may resolve the watchdogs. Let me know. Cheers, Jack On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Pyun YongHyeon pyu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 11:27:10AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: You know

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Vogel
Only one device support by em does multiqueue right now, and that is Hartwell, 82574. Jack On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: At 04:56 PM 4/8/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 02:31:18PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 02:17 PM 4/8/2010, Pyun

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-08 Thread Jack Vogel
, Pyun YongHyeon pyu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 02:06:09PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: Only one device support by em does multiqueue right now, and that is Hartwell, 82574. Thanks for the info. Mike, here is updated patch. Now UDP bulk TX transfer performance recovered a lot

Re: em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE

2010-03-06 Thread Jack Vogel
I need a bit more context Nick. Is this a card that has been non-problematic on older releases and just showed a problem with 8.0 REL? Regards, Jack On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Thomas Hurst tom.hu...@clara.net wrote: * Jack Vogel (jfvo...@gmail.com) wrote: Its using MSI? Given

Re: em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE

2010-03-05 Thread Jack Vogel
Its using MSI? Given that its PCI-X I have no idea how robust MSI is, how bout you compile it with that disabled, use legacy IRQ and see if that makes any diff. Using TSO on anything pre-PCI Express is a bad idea, probably why its gotten a bad rep in the em driver. I have a driver in the works

Re: em0 freezes on ZFS server

2010-02-25 Thread Jack Vogel
The failure to setup receive structures means it did not have sufficient mbufs to setup the RX ring and buffer structs. Not sure why this results in a lockup, but try and increase kern.ipc.nmbclusters. Let me know what happens, Jack On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Willem Jan Withagen

Re: 8-stable crashes in vmware (possible em driver issue?)

2010-02-24 Thread Jack Vogel
Hmmm, not sure what changes are in this, what if you use the 8.0 REL driver, does it still happen? Regards, Jack On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: I have a fairly recent 8-stable machine running under VMWare ESXi 3.5 (amd64 guest),

Re: intel h55 chipset + 8_RELENG

2010-02-23 Thread Jack Vogel
Yes, my bad, its going to get MFC'd soon... The driver in HEAD will work on 8 BTW. Jack On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Pyun YongHyeon pyu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:47:16AM +0100, Christof Schulze wrote: Hello world, I also have a board with the H55 chipset (see

Re: em(4) + ALTQ broken

2010-02-02 Thread Jack Vogel
So apparently this thing needs no special knowledge in the driver, yet something in the new code breaks it, can someone explain tersely how the altq app actually pokes or hooks up to the driver? I am not clear about that and I suspect if I was this would all be clearer. Jack On Tue, Feb 2, 2010

Re: em(4) + ALTQ broken

2010-02-02 Thread Jack Vogel
February 2010 18:48:02 Jack Vogel wrote: So apparently this thing needs no special knowledge in the driver, yet something in the new code breaks it, can someone explain tersely how the altq app actually pokes or hooks up to the driver? I am not clear about that and I suspect if I

Re: em(4) + ALTQ broken

2010-02-02 Thread Jack Vogel
LOL, and I can answer my own question, I just looked and the ONLY 1Gig drivers using multiqueue are mine, so I guess not eh? :) J. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Max, yes, i've done some digging myself and now see how things work, the rubber meets

Re: em(4) + ALTQ broken

2010-02-02 Thread Jack Vogel
. Right now the inserted code looks solid enough to me, so somehow I think its not being defined. Jack On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Pyun YongHyeon pyu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:41:01PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: LOL, and I can answer my own question, I just looked

Re: em(4) + ALTQ broken

2010-02-02 Thread Jack Vogel
Just teseted, and at least in the kernel build I'm doing its definitely defining that code on, hit my syntax error rebuilding em. Jack On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: It should never get to the drbr code, look at net/if_var.h, in the inline definition

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2010-01-29 Thread Jack Vogel
AM, Marco van Tol ma...@tols.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:16:02AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: I am investigating it, and have a suspicion about what's going on, you can assist in verifying my suspicion. In if_em.c search for em_setup_vlan_hw, you will find a compile time option

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2010-01-29 Thread Jack Vogel
information regarding this would be appreciated. Thanks. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: No need, I set it up and tried it, and I was right, it does not fail if that routine is not used. The interesting thing is that the igb driver, which has the same code, works

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2010-01-28 Thread Jack Vogel
I am investigating it, and have a suspicion about what's going on, you can assist in verifying my suspicion. In if_em.c search for em_setup_vlan_hw, you will find a compile time option that uses that only if FreeBSD_version is 700029, hack the code however you wish so that it uses the OLD way

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2010-01-26 Thread Jack Vogel
No, it hasn't, I need time to look it over and be convinced of what he was doing. Jack On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Nick Rogers ncrog...@gmail.com wrote: looks like the patch mentioned in kern/141843 has not been applied to the tree? On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Nick Rogers

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2010-01-26 Thread Jack Vogel
? Regards, Jack On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: No, it hasn't, I need time to look it over and be convinced of what he was doing. Jack On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Nick Rogers ncrog...@gmail.com wrote: looks like the patch mentioned in kern/141843 has

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2010-01-26 Thread Jack Vogel
:00AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: I've tried this patch, and it completely breaks IPv6 offloads, which DO work btw, our testers have a netperf stress test that does both ipv4 and ipv6, and that test fails 100% after this change. I could go hacking at it myself but as its your code Pyun

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2010-01-26 Thread Jack Vogel
...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:22:01PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: Well, what our testers do is assign BOTH an ipv4 and ipv6 address to an interface, then netperf runs over both, I don't know the internal details but I assume both TCP and UDP are going over ipv6. Prior to your

Re: State of igb on FreeBSD 8 stable?

2010-01-08 Thread Jack Vogel
-0800, alan bryan wrote: I did some searching last night and found others using igb on Intel Cards having high interrupts and other strange issues and some comments to the effect that igb is soon going to have a lot of work done to it (I believe Jack Vogel is working on it). So, can someone

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2009-12-05 Thread Jack Vogel
The 82573, when onboard (LOM) is usually special, it is used by system management firmware. Go to the system BIOS and turn off management, see if that eliminates the periodic hang. Jack On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Hiroki Sato h...@freebsd.org wrote: John Nielsen j...@jnielsen.net wrote

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2009-12-02 Thread Jack Vogel
wrote: Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote in 2a41acea0911301119j1449be58y183f2fe1d1112...@mail.gmail.com: jf I will look into this Hiroki, as time goes the older hardware does not jf always jf get test cycles like one might wish. Thanks! Please let me know if you need more information

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2009-12-02 Thread Jack Vogel
, but wanted you to know that I have reproduced this. Jack On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: We've run into a snag on this problem. The 82547 is a LOM only interface and my validation engineer has only found two old systems that have it, and neither of them

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2009-11-30 Thread Jack Vogel
I will look into this Hiroki, as time goes the older hardware does not always get test cycles like one might wish. Jack On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Hiroki Sato h...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, I noticed that network connection of one of my boxes got significantly slow just after

Re: bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-11-19 Thread Jack Vogel
Cool, so stable/7 will just need to be updated :) I need to catch up all the drivers in that stream actually. Thanks for testing!! Jack On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: At 07:29 PM 11/18/2009, Jack Vogel wrote: Hey Mike, Can you check if you see

Re: bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-11-18 Thread Jack Vogel
Hey Mike, Can you check if you see the same behavior on RELENG 8? There is a systemic problem having to do with when to enable interrupts that might be behind this. The em driver does not enable them until em_init_locked(), this is because until then its not ready to deal with a TX or RX

Re: 82573 xfers pause, no watchdog timeouts, DCGDIS ineffective (7.2-R)

2009-11-12 Thread Jack Vogel
system and its kin do not exhibit the symptom under 6.3-RELEASE-p13. The symptoms appear under freebsd-updated 7.2-RELEASE GENERIC kernel with no tuning. Previously, we've been using DCGDIS.EXE (from Jack Vogel) for this symptom. The first system to be repurposed accepts DCGDIS

Re: 82573 xfers pause, no watchdog timeouts, DCGDIS ineffective (7.2-R)

2009-11-12 Thread Jack Vogel
LOL, glad the problem has been resolved, and no thanks, I do not need to pursue this any further. I also want to thank Jeremy for his help and data!! Thanks guys and good evening, Jack On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Royce Williams royce.willi...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at

Re: em0 watchdog timeouts

2009-10-05 Thread Jack Vogel
and I'll see if that helps. I have a feeling that isn't related to the NIC at all, but I'm not sure what else to try. Rudy Jack Vogel wrote: Watchdog resets the adapter. Messing with these values is of dubious value anyway. Jack On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Rudy cra

Re: em0 watchdog timeouts

2009-10-05 Thread Jack Vogel
in the future. Jack On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Daniel Bond d...@danielbond.org wrote: Hi Jack, I'll comment your mail inline: On Oct 5, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: This posting just muddies the issue, first you talk about having a problem that involves Broadcom, ok, so post

Re: em0 watchdog timeouts

2009-10-05 Thread Jack Vogel
Hmmm, I did have one of the drivers print more info at watchdog time, but I just looked and that's not em, time to add that I guess. Since you're in the driver there isn't a huge amount of info that you can print, it still may not be enough to help. BTW, I've always been somewhat dissatisfied

Re: em0 watchdog timeouts

2009-10-02 Thread Jack Vogel
Watchdog resets the adapter. Messing with these values is of dubious value anyway. Jack On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Rudy cra...@monkeybrains.net wrote: I noticed something interesting. I set the rc_int_delay to 0: sysctl dev.em.5.rx_int_delay=0 Chcking via sysctl dev.em.5.debug=1

Re: em0 watchdog timeouts

2009-10-01 Thread Jack Vogel
I would say that 1024 should be enough, I thought maybe you were at 256. amd64 kernels just perform better at a lot of things, however I/O is not necessarily one of them, so I wouldn't claim it for sure, still I'd always default to 64 bit these days unless there's some other reason not to. What

Re: em0 watchdog timeouts

2009-09-30 Thread Jack Vogel
Increase the size of your TX ring, meaning the number of TX descriptors. You said this is a quad port card, what size PCI E slot are you in? On some motherboards slot connectors might suggest its of a certain size but its not really wired fully. If you are not in a x8 lane slot move it to one.

Re: Can't install FreeBSD amd64 (intel DP45GS)

2009-08-04 Thread Jack Vogel
There is no such beast, I assume you mean a DP45SG? http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/DP45SG/DP45SG-overview.htm So, what kind of disk, what kind of CD, I have one of these systems at home, I don't happen to run FreeBSD on it, but I could do a test install tonight and check.

Re: Can't install FreeBSD amd64 (intel DP45GS)

2009-08-04 Thread Jack Vogel
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:00 AM, David Peall da...@esn.org.za wrote: On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, David Peall wrote: I found the following: http://blog.elitecoderz.net/freebsd-freezes-on-trying-to-mount-root-f rom-ufsdevmd0-and-is-stucked/2009/01/ Which suggests disabling USB2 I don't seem

Intel ESB2 problems and their solution

2009-06-12 Thread Jack Vogel
resolve any of these issues customers are still seeing. Cheers everyone, Jack Vogel Intel Lan Access Division free...@intel.com ESB2_problems.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX

2009-05-15 Thread Jack Vogel
Better yet, just let them autoneg and you won't have these problems :) Jack On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.ukwrote: Never only set one end manually, always set both the machine and the switch. Regards Steve - Original Message - From:

Re: em0 watchdog timeout (and 3ware problems) 7-stable

2009-04-27 Thread Jack Vogel
Greg, I have another report of this problem, and I have a patch for you to try out, will be sending it out a bit later today. Jack On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Greg Byshenk free...@byshenk.net wrote: I have one machine that is seeing watchdog timeouts on em0, running 7-STABLE amd64 as

Re: Driver for Intel 10GbE adapter

2009-02-11 Thread Jack Vogel
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:21 PM, pluknet pluk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. 2009/2/12 Greg Rivers gcr+freebsd-sta...@tharned.orggcr%2bfreebsd-sta...@tharned.org : I'm trying to light an Intel 10GbE adapter in an HP DL380 G5 using very recent 7.1-STABLE amd64 with GENERIC kernel. I expected

Re: Driver for Intel 10GbE adapter

2009-02-11 Thread Jack Vogel
2009, Jack Vogel wrote: Yes, its an Oplin, 82598, it uses my ixgbe driver rather than ixgb. On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Kip Macy wrote: see ixgbe(4) I saw ixgbe in the source tree and would have tried it, but I found that no kernel module is built for ixgbe on RELENG_7. Neither is the device

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-09 Thread Jack Vogel
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Mars G Miro s...@anarchy.in.the.ph wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Mars G Miro s...@anarchy.in.the.ph wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am at Intel you know, and even we don't seem to have any systems

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-08 Thread Jack Vogel
I have not seen a problem like this ever, what is the link partner of each NIC and if you switch the ports what happens? We have Nehalem's in the validation lab but I have not had an excuse to install on one so far, I guess now I do :) Jack On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Mars G Miro

Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats

2009-01-08 Thread Jack Vogel
group had an encounter with one like yours, I have two managers looking for me, hopefully I can find one. Jack On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Mars G Miro s...@anarchy.in.the.ph wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Jack Vogel jfvo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am at Intel you know, and even

7.1 RC E1000 fix testing

2008-11-25 Thread Jack Vogel
Anyone running 7.1 and using E1000 hardware that has the time, I would appreciate any testing you can do. This has an important fix for SuperMicro servers but any regression test of the code would be helpful. The email was getting rejected due to the tarball size, so contact me and I will send

7.1 RC E1000 fix

2008-11-25 Thread Jack Vogel
Anyone running 7.1 and using E1000 hardware that has the time, I would appreciate any testing you can do. This has an important fix for SuperMicro servers but any regression test of the code would be helpful. Backup the contents of /usr/src/sys/dev/e1000 and then overwrite with this tarball.

Re: fxp multicast forwarding problems

2008-09-23 Thread Jack Vogel
promiscuous mode Twiddling dev.fxp.0.noflow The link status looks fine, but the card will not send or receive traffic. A warm reboot was enough to get things back up again. regards, BMS Adding Jack Vogel, who's responsible for fxp(4). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-14 Thread Jack Vogel
or the Linux driver has a way to bring it back out of that state. Until this gets worked out all I can tell you is keep that cable IN :) Jack On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Markus Vervier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Vogel wrote: | I have

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-13 Thread Jack Vogel
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Markus Vervier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Vogel wrote: I didn't mean the NIC EEPROM, but the system BIOS, make sure you are running the version that Jeremy said he was, if that matches you might go look at settings in the BIOS that are about management

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-13 Thread Jack Vogel
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Markus Vervier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Vogel wrote: I didn't mean the NIC EEPROM, but the system BIOS, make sure you are running the version that Jeremy said he was, if that matches

HEADS UP: E1000 networking changes in STABLE/7.1 RELEASE

2008-08-13 Thread Jack Vogel
of scripts that get postinstalled you need to be ready to make this change. How can you tell if you have such a device: Simple, use pciconf, there are only 3 ID's that are effected: 0x10A7, 0x10A9, and 0x10D6. If you have questions feel free to email me. Cheers, Jack Vogel Intel Lan Access

Re: HEADS UP: E1000 networking changes in STABLE/7.1 RELEASE

2008-08-13 Thread Jack Vogel
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jack. Will the em driver ever support the multiple hardware queues of the 82571 or are we just stuck with the standard em driver? Has there been any significant change in the em driver itself ? I have a feeling that the 82571

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-11 Thread Jack Vogel
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:19:46AM +, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Friday 08 August 2008 06:31:24 pm Jack Vogel wrote: OK, I just got access to a machine, am going to install and see if I can repro this this afternoon

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-11 Thread Jack Vogel
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Markus Vervier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Vogel wrote: Seems possibly a BIOS thing, if not that bad cable, bad link partner maybe?? I had the problem with all sorts of switches / cables. How can I dump my EEPROM settings if that helps? I didn't mean

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-08 Thread Jack Vogel
me too 's are of little help. Please elaborate on your exact same, since each person's perception will be slightly different. So far I have heard nothing that sounds like a driver issue. Jack On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Markus Vervier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just stumbled upon

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-08 Thread Jack Vogel
OK, I just got access to a machine, am going to install and see if I can repro this this afternoon. Jack On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Markus Vervier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Vogel schrieb: me too 's are of little help. Please elaborate on your exact same, since each person's

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-04 Thread Jack Vogel
The focus here on the laptop distracted me, but someone else at work reminded me. Its very important that you run the EEPROM fix for the 82573 that i posted a long while back, search in email archive for it. Its a DOS executable that will patch your EEPROM. I am not sure if the Lenova's need it,

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-04 Thread Jack Vogel
Thanks for the pointer Royce, and yes that's the issue, and if you want to boot Linux and use that instead of DOS then more power to you. Cheers, Jack On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Royce Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Vogel wrote, on 8/4/2008 9:18 AM: The focus here on the laptop

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-04 Thread Jack Vogel
] wrote: Jack Vogel wrote, on 8/4/2008 9:54 AM: On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Royce Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Vogel wrote, on 8/4/2008 9:18 AM: The focus here on the laptop distracted me, but someone else at work reminded me. Its very important that you run the EEPROM fix

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-04 Thread Jack Vogel
: Jack Vogel wrote, on 8/4/2008 9:18 AM: The focus here on the laptop distracted me, but someone else at work reminded me. Its very important that you run the EEPROM fix for the 82573 that i posted a long while back, search in email archive for it. Its a DOS executable that will patch your

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-02 Thread Jack Vogel
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:24:53 -0700 Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the poster gives me EXACT hardware list I will see about repro'ing the problem inhouse. We do not do much of anything with laptops but I will see. Oh

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-02 Thread Jack Vogel
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:55:53 +0200 Torfinn Ingolfsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to be sure: also if the first command you try on the interface is 'ifconfig up'? Hello Torfinn, good point, no. The problem appears when the

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-01 Thread Jack Vogel
? If you attach it later, after boot up, the interface won't power up and appear in the interface list (ifconfig)? The card range supported by the if_em driver is huge, so it wouldn't be surprising if this is a hardware bug affecting a relatively narrow line of parts. I've added Jack Vogel

Re: igb doesn't compile in STABLE?

2008-07-15 Thread Jack Vogel
Oh, so the problem is if igb alone is defined? On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:53:16 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: Just guessing, did someone change conf/files maybe?? If you build a STABLE kernel with igb AND em then things work

Re: igb doesn't compile in STABLE?

2008-07-15 Thread Jack Vogel
OK, will put on my todo list :) On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:07:22 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: Oh, so the problem is if igb alone is defined? Yes. Best, George ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: igb doesn't compile in STABLE?

2008-07-14 Thread Jack Vogel
Just guessing, did someone change conf/files maybe?? Jack On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, As of today, this afternoon, I see the following: linking kernel.debug e1000_api.o(.text+0xad9): In function `e1000_setup_init_funcs':

Re: em0 no longer working after upgrading from 7.0 Release to Stable

2008-07-07 Thread Jack Vogel
Yes, I guess the time has arrived to add igb into GENERIC, I would add into your kernel config now, I will add into the tree at my next opportunity. As for that failure on igb1, try building in the kernel and see if that still happens, that one I have not seen. Cheers, Jack On Mon, Jul 7,

Re: Vlan EVENT patch

2008-06-11 Thread Jack Vogel
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Pyun YongHyeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:51:53AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: This is a small patch that Sam came up with for me, it will allow drivers to know when a vlan attaches. It is transparent to any code that doesn't

Vlan EVENT patch

2008-06-10 Thread Jack Vogel
This is a small patch that Sam came up with for me, it will allow drivers to know when a vlan attaches. It is transparent to any code that doesn't want to change, but this will allow my drivers to finally utilize the vlan hardware filter (something Linux has had for ever but we lacked). My test

Re: Vlan EVENT patch

2008-06-10 Thread Jack Vogel
On 6/10/08, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a small patch that Sam came up with for me, it will allow drivers to know when a vlan attaches. It is transparent to any code that doesn't want to change, but this will allow my drivers to finally utilize the vlan hardware filter

Re: kernel panic on em0/taskq

2008-06-08 Thread Jack Vogel
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Daniel Ponticello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i'm experiencing periodic kernel panics on a server with FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Tue May 20 19:09:43 CEST 2008. My big problem is that the system is not performing memory dumping and/or automatic reoboot, it

Re: em1: Unable to allocate bus resource: memory

2008-05-04 Thread Jack Vogel
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip discussion] Sorry to all for the noise, turns out that with a motherboard BIOS update the card is recognized and initialized fine. For the archives the board was an Asus P5B-VM DO and had the 0505 BIOS. I updated to the

MFC of em/igb drivers

2008-05-03 Thread Jack Vogel
I got the new drivers in Friday afternoon for those that don't see CVS messages. The igb driver is for 82575 and 82576 adapters, it has multiqueue support and MSIX, there will be more server type enhancements in that driver as I get the time. The em driver now will be client oriented, the latest

Re: MFC of em/igb drivers

2008-05-03 Thread Jack Vogel
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Kostik Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:14:32AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: I got the new drivers in Friday afternoon for those that don't see CVS messages. The igb driver is for 82575 and 82576 adapters, it has multiqueue

Re: MFC of em/igb drivers

2008-05-03 Thread Jack Vogel
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Vogel wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Kostik Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:14:32AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: I got the new drivers in Friday afternoon for those

Re: Problems with em0 failing to initialize on stable?

2008-04-17 Thread Jack Vogel
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Ben Stuyts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 apr 2008, at 16:11, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 02:02:51PM +0200, Ben Stuyts wrote: On 17 apr 2008, at 13:20, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 06:32:32PM +0900, [EMAIL

Re: [solved/workaround?] Re: em very slow, shared irq... on 6.3p8

2008-02-27 Thread Jack Vogel
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Holger Kipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:50:16AM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: more details below. as it currently is, polling seems to do the trick, however handling several em-interfaces with the same irq (mind you, it is pci)

Re: em1: Unable to allocate bus resource: memory

2007-12-25 Thread Jack Vogel
On Dec 24, 2007 5:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a new Intel Gb PCIe network card and installed it today. The card is seen by the system but the driver fails to initialize it with the error seen in the email subject. I'm running FreeBSD RELENG_7 from around BETA3 but can upgrade

Re: Intel S3000AH stall on boot

2007-12-02 Thread Jack Vogel
On Dec 1, 2007 8:32 PM, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am doing some work for a company that recently bought 2 systems based on the above motherboard and mostly they work fine, however on boot just before userland starts they stall for about a minute. (Just after it starts the

Re: 7.0 BETA3 - slow TCP upload (TSO related?)

2007-11-30 Thread Jack Vogel
On Nov 29, 2007 11:21 PM, Vitezslav Novy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, my configuration is kernel GENERIC em0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=18bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4 ether 00:19:d1:0f:1c:18 inet

Re: 7.0 BETA3 - slow TCP upload (TSO related?)

2007-11-30 Thread Jack Vogel
On Nov 30, 2007 1:03 AM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Vogel wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 11:21 PM, Vitezslav Novy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, my configuration is kernel GENERIC em0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options

Re: Re[6]: 6.3-PRERELEASE: interrupt storm detected on irq11:; throttling interrupt source, (irq11 is em0)

2007-11-16 Thread Jack Vogel
On Nov 15, 2007 1:11 PM, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 15, 2007 12:54 PM, Lev Serebryakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Jack. You wrote 15 ?? 2007 ?., 23:52:36: Have you tried this NIC on anything previously, an older release? No... And I don't have spare computer

Re: Unable to boot recent -stable with MSI/MSIX enabled

2007-11-15 Thread Jack Vogel
On Nov 15, 2007 7:17 AM, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 October 2007 11:59:40 am Alson van der Meulen wrote: * Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-13 05:19]: A suggestion, take the relevant files from my em driver and put them back into the kernel tree

New Device IDs

2007-11-15 Thread Jack Vogel
I was curious, is there any organized method to funnel new IDs into the code or is it just willy nilly as a driver owner notices it? I will be having some patches to add IDs from this bringup I've been working on and wondered if there was a 'canonical' way to make this stuff happen? Cheers,

Re: 6.3-PRERELEASE: interrupt storm detected on irq11:; throttling interrupt source, (irq11 is em0)

2007-11-15 Thread Jack Vogel
vmstat -i Disconnect the cable from it when you boot, also pciconf -l to see what type adapter it is. This is storming before you assign it an address? On Nov 15, 2007 11:18 AM, Lev Serebryakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, freebsd-stable. Upgrading my netwrok from 100Mbit to 1Gbit.

Re: Re[2]: 6.3-PRERELEASE: interrupt storm detected on irq11:; throttling interrupt source, (irq11 is em0)

2007-11-15 Thread Jack Vogel
On Nov 15, 2007 11:52 AM, Lev Serebryakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Jack. You wrote 15 ?? 2007 ?., 22:46:59: (after loading drivers for my X100P Zaptel voice card, but it doesn't change anything). vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq0: clk

Re: Re[4]: 6.3-PRERELEASE: interrupt storm detected on irq11:; throttling interrupt source, (irq11 is em0)

2007-11-15 Thread Jack Vogel
On Nov 15, 2007 12:45 PM, Lev Serebryakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Jack. You wrote 15 ?? 2007 ?., 23:03:46: sysctl hw.intr_storm_threshold If I set this onw to 1, em0 generate 1001-1002 irq per second (accroding to vmstat -i) without any storm messages :) In this old

Re: Re[6]: 6.3-PRERELEASE: interrupt storm detected on irq11:; throttling interrupt source, (irq11 is em0)

2007-11-15 Thread Jack Vogel
On Nov 15, 2007 12:54 PM, Lev Serebryakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Jack. You wrote 15 ?? 2007 ?., 23:52:36: Have you tried this NIC on anything previously, an older release? No... And I don't have spare computer for such test :( OK, then we really have no control in the

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