Re: 2.4: e100 accounting bust for multiple adapters

[Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>]

On 1/10/06, Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:24:28 -0800, Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On 1/9/06, Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> While testing for a different issue on a box with two e100 NICs I noticed
> >> that interrupt and other accounting are accumulated to the first e100 NIC.
> >
> >are the two e100's on the same broadcast domain?  if they are you
> >might actually be transferring all traffic on eth0
>
> You ignore the fact these two NICs work as expected on 2.6.15
> and on 2.4.32 when e100 driver is compiled in, for the same
> hardware and test.
> >
> >e100 doesn't track its own interrupt counts, the kernel does that for us.
>
> What further testing would you like?  Also, you ignore the all
> zeroes ifconfig accounting for the second NIC, and that the
> accounting was also accumulated to the first e100 along with
> interrupts.

okay mea culpa, I guess I didn't see you say that.
It sounds like the netdev structs are somehow overlapped.

> Anyway the solution is simple: modular e100 is borked on 2.4,
> compiled in is okay.

modular e100 2.X is borked, right? if you have a moment could you try
the 3.X e100 driver from sourceforge?
(http://prdownloads.sf.net/e1000) it should work fine on 2.4 and I
haven't heard any reports of icky stats.

thanks for your testing and bug reports.

Jesse