bge Ierr rate increase from 5.3R -> 6.1R

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 12 13:45:10 PST 2006


On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:07:28PM +0000, Greg Eden wrote:
> >>I recently updated two production servers from 5.3 to 6.1 via  
> >>cvsup and
> >>buildworld.

Greg,

This may or may not be any help (read: possible red herring).
But from looking at your below dmesg, I don't see any signs
of SMP being used:

> >> Since the upgrade I've seen an increase in the number of
> >>Input packet errors reported on the bge cards in on both boxes.  
> >>One is a
> >>HP DL360g3, the other is a HP DL380g3. Both have a pair of 2.8GHz  
> >>Xeons with a SMP kernel.
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (3000.12-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf41  Stepping = 1
>    
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE 
> ,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>   Features2=0x641d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>>
>   AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
>   Logical CPUs per core: 2
> real memory  = 1073688576 (1023 MB)
> avail memory = 1045893120 (997 MB)
--- SMP details are missing from here ---
> ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 9
> ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
> ioapic1 <Version 2.0> irqs 24-47 on motherboard
> ioapic2 <Version 2.0> irqs 48-71 on motherboard
> ioapic3 <Version 2.0> irqs 72-95 on motherboard
> kbd1 at kbdmux0
> ...

Normally, SMP kernels display something like this:

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (2010.31-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20f32  Stepping = 2
  Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
  Features2=0x1<SSE3>
  AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
  AMD Features2=0x3<LAHF,CMP>
  Cores per package: 2
real memory  = 2147418112 (2047 MB)
avail memory = 2096336896 (1999 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <Nvidia AWRDACPI>
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2
ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard

Or, for comparison, a 4.11 box:

CPU: Intel Pentium III (933.03-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x68a  Stepping = 10
  Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory  = 536805376 (524224K bytes)
avail memory = 518811648 (506652K bytes)
Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0
IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard: 2 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): apic id:  0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
 cpu1 (AP):  apic id:  1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
 io0 (APIC): apic id:  2, version: 0x00178011, at 0xfec00000
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0358000.

Additionally, your Email says "two 2.8GHz Xeons", but it looks as
if you have one physical 3.0GHz Xeon that has dual cores.

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