9.2 ixgbe tx queue hang

[Markus Gebert]

On 21.03.2014, at 14:16, Christopher Forgeron <csforgeron at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Markus,
> 
>  Yes, we may have different problems, or perhaps the same problem is manifesting itself in different ways in our systems. 
> 
>  Have you tried a 10.0-RELEASE system yet? If we were on the same OS version, we could then compare system specs a bit deeper, and see what is different. Perhaps under 10.0 your symptoms would be closer to mine, which may not be progress, but would be something. 

I’m afraid, we can’t. We can only reproduce this on production systems. And they cannot be easily upgraded right now. For one, we don’t have our build infrastructure ready for 10.x, because we usually skip the X.0 release, which means no poudriere/pkg repo with locally patched packages I need for these systems go into production. Then there’s testing, configuration changes needed, etc. It will probably be a year until we can consider upgrading anything productive to FreeBSD 10.x.

I could setup a test system on identical spare hardware, but as we cannot trigger the problem without production load so far, there’s no point.


Markus