Thread (95 messages) 95 messages, 7 authors, 2004-10-01

Re: bad TSO performance in 2.6.9-rc2-BK

From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2004-09-29 21:50:50

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:10:24 -0700
Nivedita Singhvi [off-list ref] wrote:
I just crashed too, no backtrace. netperf tcp stream test,
and was on bk14 + dave's 5 patches, p4/e1000 -> Intel Pentium
M proc (1.7GHz). Going to repeat on slower SMPs with serial
console, get more info..
I can reproduce this now, it has to do with some weird combinations
of packet loss and SACK'ing.  It's one of the BUG_ON() assertions
triggering in tcp_tso_acked() as I suspected in Andi's first report.

Working on a fix.
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