9.2 ixgbe tx queue hang

[Julian Elischer]

On 3/23/14, 4:57 PM, Rick Macklem wrote:
> Christopher Forgeron wrote:
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>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Rick Macklem < rmacklem at uoguelph.ca
>>> wrote:
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>> Christopher Forgeron wrote:
>>> #if defined(INET) || defined(INET6)
>>> /* Initialize to max value. */
>>> if (ifp->if_hw_tsomax == 0)
>>> ifp->if_hw_tsomax = IP_MAXPACKET;
>>> KASSERT(ifp->if_hw_tsomax <= IP_MAXPACKET &&
>>> ifp->if_hw_tsomax >= IP_MAXPACKET / 8,
>>> ("%s: tsomax outside of range", __func__));
>>> #endif
>>>
>>>
>>> Should this be the location where it's being set rather than in
>>> ixgbe? I would assume that other drivers could fall prey to this
>>> issue.
>>>
>> All of this should be prepended with "I'm an NFS guy, not a
>> networking
>> guy, so I might be wrong".
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>> Other drivers (and ixgbe for the 82598 chip) can handle a packet that
>> is in more than 32 mbufs. (I think the 82598 handles 100, grep for
>> SCATTER
>> in *.h in sys/dev/ixgbe.)
>>

the Xen backend can not handle mor ethan 32 segments in some versions 
of Xen.