RE: Netxen packet loss with VLANs and LRO (was: [PATCH] netxen: fix LRO disable warning)

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 03:37:08AM -0700, Amit Kumar Salecha wrote:

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netxen_nic_set_flags() rejects data if other flag than ETH_FLAG_LRO

is set.

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Driver also supports NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX.
Now compare data with ethtool_op_get_flags(), to get all supported

features.

Could that be the cause for packet loss on kernel 2.6.38.2 if:

  - receiving card is NX3031 [4040:0100]
  - frames are received with VLAN tags
  - large received offload is on.

If ip_forwarding or routing is enable ....then you may see packet loss.

Packet Loss of this kind is noticed when doing TCP data transfers
towards the host with the Netxen Interface and the TCP session is
terminated on the Netxen host itself. TCP sessions routed through the
Netxen host are not affected.

My ethtool doesn't allow me to influence the LRO setting alone - it is
disabled when I set rx off but doesn't come on again when rx is set to
on again. So, ethtool -K rx off, ethtool -K rx on fixes the issue.

If rx csum is disabled, LRO will be disable. LRO won't be enabled automatically if you enable rx csum.
You need to explicitly enable LRO.

Is this a known bug, maybe with an available patch?

You need to retest with this patch http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/88060/. This patch got applied instead of mine.


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