Re: bnx2 udp multicast packet loss and jtter

Le vendredi 17 juin 2011 à 16:35 +0100, Kieran Kunhya a écrit :

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] wrote:

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Le samedi 11 juin 2011 à 15:32 +0100, Kieran Kunhya a écrit :

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Hello,

I get some bad packet loss and high jitter on a BCM5709. This is on
kernel 2.6.38-8 - unfortunately using a newer kernel isn't an option
right now.
The bnx2 driver is version v2.0.23b.

I've tried a lot of kenel types such as -lowlatency, -ck and vanilla.
The thread doing the udp output is at realtime priority and the same
thing happens with different applications.

Example of jitter
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2701213/jitter.png

Is there anything I can do to further diagnose this problem?

Hi

How is this jitter measured ?

Is the link otherwise idle, or do you have a particular qdisc setup to
make sure packets from other flow wont have an effect ?

Thanks for the reply.
The jitter is measured with an IPTV analyser. There are other devices
on the same switch which don't have any jitter issues.
The link is otherwise idle.

jitter has a precise meaning in RTP flows. Is this IPTV analyser using
this definition ?

Is this analyser running on the machine that sends frames, or another
machine ?

Are you sure the realtime thread fullfill its requirements ?
(RT priority wont help if this thread is cpu bounded)