re(4) problem
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
wearabnet at yahoo.ca
Wed Mar 12 07:38:01 PDT 2008
----- Original Message ----
> From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com>
> To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet at yahoo.ca>
> Cc: Daniel Gerzo <danger at FreeBSD.org>; FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current at FreeBSD.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:31:34 AM
> Subject: Re: re(4) problem
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:34:12AM -0700, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > > From: Pyun YongHyeon
> > > To: Daniel Gerzo
> > > Cc: current at FreeBSD.org; yongari at FreeBSD.org
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:24:41 AM
> > > Subject: Re: re(4) problem
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:38:32PM +0100, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> > > > Hello Daniel,
> > > >
> > > > Monday, March 10, 2008, 4:26:49 PM, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello Pyun,
> > > >
> > > > >> Since you're using MSI, would you try attached patch?
> > > > >> Sorry, I don't have PCIe based hardware and RealTek's datasheet for
> > > > >> PCIe variants is too poor to get useful information.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> --
> > > > >> Regards,
> > > > >> Pyun YongHyeon
> > > >
> > > > > Thank you for your quick reply, I will test your patch ASAP, but I
> have one
> > > > > simple question:
> > > >
> > > > > Should I apply this patch on top of
> > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/re.HEAD.patch
> > > > > or what is this patch aginst?
> > > >
> > > > > Thank you.
> > > >
> > > > Or better, please send me (or place somewhere on your home page) the
> > > > complete if_re.c and if_rlreg.h which should adress my problems, so
> > > > that I can test it easily.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Done.
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_re.c
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_rlreg.h
> > > The above files would build on CURRENT/RELENG_7/7.0-RELEASE.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure whether it helps or not.
> > >
> > > > Your efforst are greatly appreciated!
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Daniel mailto:danger at FreeBSD.org
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Pyun YongHyeon
> >
> > Ok, here is the ping to 2 servers using same nic to another server using fxp
> in same lan.
> >
> > ping -c 100 -s 5000 after using
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_re.c
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_rlreg.h
> >
> > re0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem
> 0xd0020000-0xd0020fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
> > re0: Using 2 MSI messages
> > miibus0: on re0
> > rgephy0: PHY 1 on miibus0
> > rgephy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
> 1000baseT-FDX, auto
> > re0: Ethernet address: 00:19:d1:a7:a4:72
> > re0: [FILTER]
> > re0: [FILTER]
> >
> > 100 packets transmitted, 100 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
> > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.410/2.429/2.587/0.019 ms
> >
> > Here without.
> >
> > re0: port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem
> 0xf2000000-0xf2000fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
> > re0: Using 2 MSI messages
> > miibus0: on re0
> > rgephy0: PHY 1 on miibus0
> > rgephy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
> 1000baseT-FDX, auto
> > re0: Ethernet address: 00:1a:4d:4f:76:07
> > re0: [FILTER]
> > re0: [FILTER]
> >
> > 100 packets transmitted, 99 packets received, 1.0% packet loss
> > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 632.148/633.103/640.812/0.872 ms
> >
> > So as I could tell the ping latency got fixed by using latest changes.
> >
>
> Sorry, I don't know what exact issues you had. Just pinging wouldn't
> prove anything. Did you encounter random network loss without any
> relevant messages in console prior to trying latest patch?
> If you know a way that can reliably reproduce re(4) issue would you
> try to reproduce it again?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Regards,
> Pyun YongHyeon
>
My problem was packet loss, and that was very clear when I did ping it earlier.
For now, there is no packet loss yet.
Regards,
-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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