bce(4) and rx errors

[Vlad GALU]

On 12/10/08, Vlad GALU <dudu at dudu.ro> wrote:
> On 12/10/08, Mike Jakubik <mikej at rogers.com> wrote:
>  > On Wed, December 10, 2008 11:03 am, Jeff Blank wrote:
>  >  > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 04:59:26PM +0200, Vlad GALU wrote:
>  >  >> I have an application pulling about 220Kpps from a bce(4) card
>  >  >> (details below). At what seems to be random times, errors start
>  >  >> showing up on that interface (I'm watching it with netstat -w1 -I), so
>  >  >> about 10% of the initial 220Kpps is reported as errors.
>  >  >
>  >  > I'm also seeing a pretty steady stream of errors on both bce
>  >  > interfaces in a Dell PowerEdge 2950 III.  In my case, the source
>  >  > is RELENG_7_1 from ~14:00 UTC yesterday (9 Dec).  Throughput does not
>  >  > seem to be affected.  "sysctl -a | egrep -i 'bce.*err'" yields all
>  >  > zeroes, for whatever that's worth.
>  >
>  >
>  > See the "RELENG_7_1: bce driver change generating too much interrupts ?"
>  >  thread. This problem as surfaced since the recent bce driver changes.
>
>
> Thanks Mike, I'll give it a shot.

   Indeed, the errors seem to have gone away after rolling back the
driver, as Xin Li suggested in another thread. Sorry for the noise!

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