individual queue blocking entire rx unit on ixgbe (Re: How do I balance bandwidth over several virtual NICs?)

[Adrian Chadd]

Ping,

Luigi - would you mind sending through a diff ? I'd like to get this
into -HEAD on both igb and ixgbe.

Thanks!


-a


On 1 October 2014 16:53, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 1 October 2014 16:53, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 04:47:32PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>> On 1 October 2014 16:49, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it> wrote:
>>> > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 04:42:58PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>> >> Yeah, just grab the diffs that I committed to ixgbe and try it out.
>>> >>
>>> >> The flowdirector initialisation is buggy. :)
>>> >
>>> > ok but i don't think it is related, see my previous email.
>>>
>>> I saw - but the verisign people also saw queue stalls as well.
>>>
>>> So is setting DROP_EN unconditionally fixing it for you?
>>
>> yes so it seems.
>
> Interesting. That's a pretty small window to get it wrong in.
>
> Would you file a PR about it? We'll try to get this fixed soon.
>
> (Same for igb..)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> -a