ixg tester needed (was Re: Problems with netbsd-8 RC1 and ixg drivers (?))

[Masanobu SAITOH <msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost>]

On 2018/05/28 16:51, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 09:46:21AM +0200, 6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > At the weekend I tried to update to a current version of netbsd-8 rc1.
> >
> > After the restart, the kernel will work for a few hours. After that, no
> > packets will arrive at the network card.


 Please try the following patch who are using ixg(4) on netbsd-8 or -current:

	http://www.netbsd.org/~msaitoh/ixgbe-eitr-20180522-0.dif

This change might fix RX stall problem. If you got TX device timeout or
RX stall,  please report with the output of:

	sysctl hw |grep ixg


 Regards.



> > The server is running normally. No
> > hints in dmesg.
> >
> > Some network programs report issues:
> >
> > zebra[371]: rtm_write: write : No buffer space available (55)
> >
> > syslogd[541]: recvfrom() unix `/var/run/log': No buffer space available
> >
> > gate zebra[1423]: routing socket error: No buffer space available
>
> You are seeing two different issues here. The "No buffer space" is considered
> harmless (it used to be silent, but the lossage should be the same).
>
> The ixg(4) stops receiving packets is under investigation, RC2 is waiting
> for a proposed patch being tested.
>
> Martin


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