TX Checksum offloading issue with re interfaces

Yonghyeon PYUN pyunyh at gmail.com
Mon May 12 04:38:42 UTC 2014


On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 12:33:24PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> On 09 May 2014, at 03:47, Yonghyeon PYUN <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 08:50:48PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >> 
> >> while testing checksum offloading of UDP packets over IP with IP options, I figured
> >> out that my card
> >> 
> >> dev.re.1.%desc: RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G PCIe Gigabit Ethernet
> >> dev.re.1.%driver: re
> >> dev.re.1.%location: slot=0 function=0 handle=\_SB_.PCI0.PE1F.LAN2
> >> dev.re.1.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10ec device=0x8168 subvendor=0x1734 subdevice=0x1159 class=0x020000
> >> dev.re.1.%parent: pci13
> >> dev.re.1.stats: -1
> >> dev.re.1.int_rx_mod: 65
> >> 
> >> computes the UDP checksum, but stores it in the packet at the place, where it would be,
> >> if there are no IP options. So it corrupts the options in the packet...
> >> 
> >> I looked at sys/dev/re/if_re.c, but couldn't figure out how to fix it. Any idea?
> >> 
> > 
> > re(4) has a very long history on its broken TX checksum offloading.
> > So re(4) has many workarounds for known issues on several variants.
> > re(4) controllers support TX IPv4/TCP/UDP checksum offloading.  For
> > 8168C/8168CP, TX IPv4 checksum offloading was disabled due to
> > generation of corrupted frames.
> > Could you show me the dmesg output(only re(4)/rgephy(4))?
> 
> > The vendor uses the same PCI id for its RTL8168/8111 family chips
> > so dmesg output is necessary to know exact controller revision.
> Sure (re1 was used during the test):
> re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x8000-0x80ff mem 0xf6104000-0xf6104fff,0xf6100000-0xf6103fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci12
> re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
> re0: Chip rev. 0x28800000
> re0: MAC rev. 0x00200000
> miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
> rgephy0: <RTL8251 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> rgephy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
> re0: Ethernet address: 00:19:99:85:31:d9
> re1: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x9000-0x90ff mem 0xf5c20000-0xf5c20fff,0xf6200000-0xf620ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci13
> re1: Using 1 MSI-X message
> re1: Chip rev. 0x3c800000
> re1: MAC rev. 0x00300000
> miibus1: <MII bus> on re1
> rgephy1: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus1
> rgephy1:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
> re1: Ethernet address: 00:19:99:7e:c7:46
> 
It seems you have two variants.
re0 is RTL8168DP and re1 is RTL8168CP.  Do you see the issue on
both controllers?  I guess you may see the issue on re1 only since
you've posted dev.re.1 output.  I've attached a diff which may
address the issue on re1 interface.  If you see the issue on re0,
I have to change the diff to include RTL8168D.
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