RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Manfred Spraul
> it is very hard to imagine the scenario which can lead to this... > I will try your suggestion.. Perhaps a problem with the csum assembler implementations? Which cpu type do you optimize for, and which cpu is installed? Btw, are you overclocking anything? -- Manfred - To unsubscribe

RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Imran . Patel
> What you can try is to turn on slab debugging. Set the FORCED_DEBUG > define in mm/slab.c to one and recompile. Does it change any pattern > when you dump the data in the skbs or pings? > If yes someone is playing with already freed packets. I think the dump that i got suggests something

Re: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:15:49PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And as a I said earlier, only ping packets with size within certain range > create this problem..Something is terribly wrong here!! But as I am not > a Linux mm guru, i can't tell what is wrong here! What you can try is to

Re: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:47:18PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > > Coudl the problem be in the NIC driver not in the alloc_skb? I have used > both 2.4.{1,3} for some time and never seen this corruption. I use ping > -f with various packet sizes for stress testing my IPSec boxes... these do

RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Imran . Patel
> Coudl the problem be in the NIC driver not in the alloc_skb? No, i don't think so...i got the dump of the packet at the local_out and post routing hooks& found it in bad shape there. Here it is what it looks like: 45 0 0 80 0 0 40 0 ff 1 2d f8 c0 a8 66 16 c0 a8 66 1d 0 0 e4 48 11 d 0 0

RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Coudl the problem be in the NIC driver not in the alloc_skb? I have used both 2.4.{1,3} for some time and never seen this corruption. I use ping -f with various packet sizes for stress testing my IPSec boxes... these do quite a bit of extra skb creation as an IPSec header sometimes does not

RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Imran . Patel
> -Original Message- > From: ext Dave Airlie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 11. April 2001 20:20 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain dam

RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Dave Airlie
What compiler are you using to compile the kernel? Dave. On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, I don't know then. You have to debug it. It's probably > > something stupid > > (if fundamental services like alloc_skb/kfree_skb were > > completely buggy > > someone surely would

RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Imran . Patel
> Well, I don't know then. You have to debug it. It's probably > something stupid > (if fundamental services like alloc_skb/kfree_skb were > completely buggy > someone surely would have noticed earlier) yep, at first i thought it was because of sume stupidity in my module...but now it seems

RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Dave Airlie
What compiler are you using to compile the kernel? Dave. On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I don't know then. You have to debug it. It's probably something stupid (if fundamental services like alloc_skb/kfree_skb were completely buggy someone surely would have

RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Imran . Patel
-Original Message- From: ext Dave Airlie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11. April 2001 20:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!) What compiler

RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Coudl the problem be in the NIC driver not in the alloc_skb? I have used both 2.4.{1,3} for some time and never seen this corruption. I use ping -f with various packet sizes for stress testing my IPSec boxes... these do quite a bit of extra skb creation as an IPSec header sometimes does not

RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Imran . Patel
Coudl the problem be in the NIC driver not in the alloc_skb? No, i don't think so...i got the dump of the packet at the local_out and post routing hooks found it in bad shape there. Here it is what it looks like: 45 0 0 80 0 0 40 0 ff 1 2d f8 c0 a8 66 16 c0 a8 66 1d 0 0 e4 48 11 d 0 0 14

Re: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:47:18PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: Coudl the problem be in the NIC driver not in the alloc_skb? I have used both 2.4.{1,3} for some time and never seen this corruption. I use ping -f with various packet sizes for stress testing my IPSec boxes... these do

Re: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:15:49PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And as a I said earlier, only ping packets with size within certain range create this problem..Something is terribly wrong here!! But as I am not a Linux mm guru, i can't tell what is wrong here! What you can try is to

RE: skb allocation problems (More Brain damage!)

2001-04-11 Thread Manfred Spraul
it is very hard to imagine the scenario which can lead to this... I will try your suggestion.. Perhaps a problem with the csum assembler implementations? Which cpu type do you optimize for, and which cpu is installed? Btw, are you overclocking anything? -- Manfred - To unsubscribe