Subject: Re: kern/36097: http fetch stall in networking code
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/30/2007 16:40:06
The following reply was made to PR kern/36097; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
To: "Liam J. Foy" <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/36097: http fetch stall in networking code
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:38:55 +0200

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 On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:36:05PM +0100, Liam J. Foy wrote:
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 > On 30 Mar 2007, at 16:55, Tim Rightnour wrote:
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 > >The following reply was made to PR kern/36097; it has been noted by =20
 > >GNATS.
 > >
 > >From: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
 > >To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > >Cc: netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
 > >	kern-bug-people@netbsd.org
 > >Subject: Re: kern/36097: http fetch stall in networking code
 > >Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:50:23 -0700 (MST)
 > >
 > > On 30-Mar-2007 YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
 > >> i guess it's failing to transmit any packets with sack, or =20
 > >>something like
 > >>that.
 > >> are you using any hw offloading?
 > >
 > > I've tested this on 4.0/i386 with a vr0 (no hardware offload that =20
 > >I know of),
 > > and 4.0/prep with an fxp0 with cpusaver turned on.  Both acted =20
 > >identically.
 > >
 > > At the time this was reported, a number of other people also =20
 > >verified the same
 > > behavior on thier 4.0 machines.
 > >
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 > You say this is fixed in current - we just need to find out who may have
 > fixed this on purpose or by accident. Anyone know :-)?
 
 Actually, it doesn't seem to be fixed in -current;  it doesn't fail all
 the time:  if you manage not to lose a signle packet, it will go
 through.
 
 Also, it is not related to SACK (I had it turned off for my own
 experiments).
 
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