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From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@drdos.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9 RCU breakage in dev_queue_xmit
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:56:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4192AAA9.7080407@drdos.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CRhaw-0001v7-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:

>Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey@drdos.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Running dual gigabit interfaces at 196 MB/S (megabytes/second) on 
>>receive, 12 CLK interacket gap time, 1500 bytes payload
>>at 65000 packets per second per gigabit interface, and retransmitting 
>>received packets at 130 MB/S out of a third gigabit interface
>>with skb, RCU locks in dev_queue_xmit breaks and enters the following state:
>>    
>>
>
>This patch might help.
>  
>

Herbert,

Even with this patch I still see RCU breakage at these data rates and 
the problem persists -- it just takes
longer for it to manifest (about 23 hours).  I am recoding 
dev_queue_xmit since the use of RCU primitives
is severely busted.   I looked over the code and the fact it breaks on 
uniprocessor is really a joke. 
No offense guys, but this is pretty bad.  How about something simple, 
like a spinlock or
multiple send queues per proc?

Jeff


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-10 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-09 17:35 Jeff V. Merkey
2004-11-09 18:14 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-09 18:40   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-11-09 18:37     ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-11-09 23:38       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-11-10  1:48 ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-10 17:21   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-11-10 23:56   ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]

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