9.2 ixgbe tx queue hang

[Christopher Forgeron]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> Christopher Forgeron wrote:
> >
>
> > Also should we not also subtract ETHER_VLAN_ENCAP_LEN from tsomax to
> > make sure VLANs fit?
> >
> I took a look and, yes, this does seem to be needed. It will only be
> needed for the case where a vlan is in use and hwtagging is disabled,
> if I read the code correctly.
>

Yes, or in the rare care where you configure your switch to pass the v_lan
header through to the NIC.

>
> Do you use vlans?
>

(Answered in above email)


>
> I've attached an updated patch.
>
> It might be nice to have the printf() patch in the driver too, so
> we can see how big the ones that are too big are?
>
>
Yes, I'm going to leave those in until I know we have this fixed..  will
probably leave it in a while longer as it should only have a minor
performance impact to iter-loop like that, and I'd like to see what the
story is a few months down the road.

Thanks for the patches, will have to start giving them code-names so we can
keep them straight.  :-) I guess we have printf, tsomax, and this one.