Re: 1.03Mpps on e1000

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Ray Lehtiniemi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:18:25AM -0700, Ray Lehtiniemi wrote:
>
> > it is worth noting that my box has become quite unstable since
> > i started to use oprofile and pktgen together.  sshd stops responding,
> > and the network seems to go down.  not sure what is happening there...
> > this instability seems to be persisting across reboots, unfortunately...
>
>
> ok, it seems that this is related to martin's e1000 patch, and i
> just hadn't noticed it before.  rolling back the 1.2 Mpps patch
> seems to cure the problem.
>
> symptoms are a total freezeup of the e1000 interfaces. netstat
> -an shows a tcp connection for my ssh login to the box, with about
> 53K in the send-Q.  /proc/net/tcp is empty, however....  i can
> reproduce this at will by doing
>
>  # objdump -d /lib/modules/2.6.10-rc3-mp-rayl/kernel/net/core/pktgen.ko
>
> on that machine with the e1000-patched kernel running.
>
>
> if there's any diagnostic output i can generate that might tell
> me what's going wrong, let me know and i'll try to generate it.
can you send this to again to netdev.

thanks.

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