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[Bug 1425576] Re: Occasional crash in APM xgene enet driver on kernels prior to v3.19

 

ubuntu@am2:~$ iperf -c 10.228.0.2 -P 8 -t 120
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.228.0.2, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 10] local 10.228.66.98 port 59722 connected with 10.228.0.2 port 5001
[  4] local 10.228.66.98 port 59717 connected with 10.228.0.2 port 5001
[  3] local 10.228.66.98 port 59715 connected with 10.228.0.2 port 5001
[  5] local 10.228.66.98 port 59716 connected with 10.228.0.2 port 5001
[  6] local 10.228.66.98 port 59718 connected with 10.228.0.2 port 5001
[  7] local 10.228.66.98 port 59719 connected with 10.228.0.2 port 5001
[  9] local 10.228.66.98 port 59721 connected with 10.228.0.2 port 5001
[  8] local 10.228.66.98 port 59720 connected with 10.228.0.2 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-120.0 sec  1.71 GBytes   122 Mbits/sec
[  7]  0.0-120.0 sec  1.64 GBytes   117 Mbits/sec
[  4]  0.0-120.0 sec  1.56 GBytes   112 Mbits/sec
[  5]  0.0-120.0 sec  1.54 GBytes   110 Mbits/sec
[ 10]  0.0-120.0 sec  1.70 GBytes   121 Mbits/sec
[  6]  0.0-120.0 sec  1.71 GBytes   123 Mbits/sec
[  9]  0.0-120.0 sec  1.72 GBytes   123 Mbits/sec
[  8]  0.0-120.0 sec  1.58 GBytes   113 Mbits/sec
[SUM]  0.0-120.0 sec  13.2 GBytes   942 Mbits/sec
ubuntu@am2:~$ uname -aa
Linux am2 3.13.0-58-generic #97-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 8 03:00:52 UTC 2015 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux


** Tags removed: verification-needed-trusty
** Tags added: verification-done-trusty

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Title:
  Occasional crash in APM xgene enet driver on kernels prior to v3.19

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in linux source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux source package in Utopic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  System panics every few hours under constant network load

  [Test Case]
  On the X-Gene system, start an iperf server:
    $ iperf -s
  Connect to it from another system (1Gbps is sufficient)
    $ iperf -t 100000 -c <xgene host>

  On failure, you'll get a panic within several hours.

  [Regression Risk]
  The proposed patch only touches the impacted driver. It is adding a memory barrier - albeit a lightweight one - so there is the risk of a performance degradation. Indeed, when measured using a 60s iperf run, I do see a performance drop, but by < 0.5%.

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