Kok, Auke wrote:Michel Lespinasse wrote:(I've added the E1000 maintainers to the thread as I found the issuethat's perfectly likely. The main issue is that we read the hardware
seems to go away after I compile out that driver. For reference, I was
trying to figure out why I lose exactly 24 ticks about every two
seconds, as shown with report_lost_ticks. This is with a DQ965GF
motherboard with onboard E1000).
stats every two seconds and that can consume quite some time. It's
strange that you are losing that many ticks IMHO, but losing one or two
might very well be.
We've been playing with all sorts of solutions to this problem and
haven't come up with a way to reduce the load of the system reading HW
stats, and it remains the most likely culprit, allthough I don't rule
out clean routines just yet. This could very well be exaggerated at
100mbit speeds as well, I never looked at that.
I've had good results with 2.6.21.1 (even running tickless :)) on these
NICs. Have you tried that yet?
Maybe this could fix it in 2.6.20? (went into 2.6.21)
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Commit: 46fcc86dd71d70211e965102fb69414c90381880
Parent: 2b858bd02ffca71391161f5709588fc70da79531
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu Apr 19 18:21:01 2007 -0700
Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu Apr 19 18:21:01 2007 -0700
Revert "e1000: fix NAPI performance on 4-port adapters"
This reverts commit 60cba200f11b6f90f35634c5cd608773ae3721b7. It's been
linked to lockups of the e1000 hardware, see for example
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229603
but it's likely that the commit itself is not really introducing the
bug, but just allowing an unrelated problem to rear its ugly head (ie
one current working theory is that the code exposes us to a hardware
race condition by decreasing the amount of time we spend in each NAPI
poll cycle).
We'll revert it until root cause is known. Intel has a repeatable
reproduction on two different machines and bus traces of the hardware
doing something bad.