On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 07:58 -0700, Nivedita Singhvi wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 02:15 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> >>On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:11:11PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >>
> >>>Doing simple iperf test on new opteron with tg3 against existing Xeon
> >>>system. I am seeing something wierd, the connection hangs right away.
> >>>Is this a TSO bug.
> >>>
> >>>Sender: BK latest (2.6.9-rc3) Tg3 (XX.YY.250.3)
> >>>Receiver: BK + netdev(jeffm) + dave's latest e100 (XX.YY.1.73)
> >>>
> >>>Both machines are directly connected with a netgear 100mbit switch.
> >>
> >
> > IT ISN'T A NETWORK PROBLEM. The problem is that iperf uses posix
> > pthread mutex's to sychronize and it looks like a futex bug.
>
> might not be a futex bug - check to see if iperf does
> any writes, fflushes, etc, in a signal handler - i.e.
> that its signal handling is thread-safe. glibc now
> makes it a fatal bug..
It doesn't do I/O from signal handler, but the problem goes away when
not compiling with -O2.
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