NetBSD Problem Report #50933

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From: 6bone@6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de
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Subject: can not enable the interface capabilities at ixg0
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>Number:         50933
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       can not enable the interface capabilities at ixg0
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    dyoung
>State:          feedback
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 10 13:35:00 +0000 2016
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jun 07 22:17:05 +0000 2021
>Originator:     Uwe Toenjes
>Release:        netbsd-7
>Organization:
University of Leipzig
>Environment:
NetBSD 6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de 7.0_STABLE NetBSD 7.0_STABLE (MYCONF7.gdb) #0: Sat Feb 13 12:32:12 CET 2016  root@6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de:/usr/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/MYCONF7.gdb amd64

>Description:
ifconfig ixg0 reports

ixg0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        capabilities=fff80<TSO4,IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx>
        capabilities=fff80<TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx,TCP6CSUM_Rx>
        capabilities=fff80<TCP6CSUM_Tx,UDP6CSUM_Rx,UDP6CSUM_Tx,TSO6,LRO>
        enabled=42b80<TSO4,IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Tx>
        enabled=42b80<UDP4CSUM_Tx,TSO6>
        ec_capabilities=7<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU>
        ec_enabled=7<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU>
        address: a0:36:9f:26:8e:7c
        media: Ethernet autoselect

I try to activate the capabilities.

I try to activate the capabilities.

ifconfig ixg0 tso4 tso6 - works
ifconfig ixg0 ip4csum - works

ifconfig ixg0 tcp4csum
ifconfig: SIOCSIFCAP: Invalid argument

ifconfig ixg0 tcp4csum-rx
ifconfig: SIOCSIFCAP: Invalid argument

ifconfig ixg0 udp4csum-tx - works

ifconfig ixg0 udp4csum-rx
ifconfig: SIOCSIFCAP: Invalid argument

ifconfig ixg0 udp4csum
ifconfig: SIOCSIFCAP: Invalid argument

The same for tcp6csum and udp6csum

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/50933: can not enable the interface capabilities at ixg0 
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 16:41:57 +0200

 [ixg(4) rejecting some of the capabilities it lists as supported]

 I can confirm this problem.=20

 FWIW, it is also present in a netbsd-7 kernel with ixg(4) backported=20
 from -current.

 Cheerio,
 hauke

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Responsible-Changed-From-To: kern-bug-people->msaitoh
Responsible-Changed-By: msaitoh@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu, 19 May 2016 06:50:11 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
mine.


From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/50933: can not enable the interface capabilities at ixg0
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 15:02:03 -0500

 On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 01:35:00PM +0000, 6bone@6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote:
 > >Number:         50933
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       can not enable the interface capabilities at ixg0
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 10 13:35:00 +0000 2016
 > >Originator:     Uwe Toenjes
 > >Release:        netbsd-7
 > >Organization:
 > University of Leipzig
 > >Environment:
 > NetBSD 6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de 7.0_STABLE NetBSD 7.0_STABLE (MYCONF7.gdb) #0: Sat Feb 13 12:32:12 CET 2016  root@6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de:/usr/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/MYCONF7.gdb amd64
 > 
 > >Description:
 > ifconfig ixg0 reports
 > 
 > ixg0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 >         capabilities=fff80<TSO4,IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx>
 >         capabilities=fff80<TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx,TCP6CSUM_Rx>
 >         capabilities=fff80<TCP6CSUM_Tx,UDP6CSUM_Rx,UDP6CSUM_Tx,TSO6,LRO>
 >         enabled=42b80<TSO4,IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Tx>
 >         enabled=42b80<UDP4CSUM_Tx,TSO6>
 >         ec_capabilities=7<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU>
 >         ec_enabled=7<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU>
 >         address: a0:36:9f:26:8e:7c
 >         media: Ethernet autoselect
 > 
 > I try to activate the capabilities.
 > 
 > I try to activate the capabilities.
 > 
 > ifconfig ixg0 tso4 tso6 - works
 > ifconfig ixg0 ip4csum - works
 > 
 > ifconfig ixg0 tcp4csum
 > ifconfig: SIOCSIFCAP: Invalid argument

 On ixg, all of the L4 checksum-offload capabilities (tcp4csum, tcp6csum,
 udp4csum, udp6csum) have to be activated/deactivated together, because
 that is how the hardware works.  If that is not already mentioned in the
 manual page, my apologies.

 I would argue that given the limitations of SIOCSIFCAP, today, this is
 the least bad way for ixg offload capabilities to work.  I'd be happy to
 talk on tech-net about how to bring the ioctl interface up to snuff.

 Dave

 -- 
 David Young
 dyoung@pobox.com    Urbana, IL    (217) 721-9981

Responsible-Changed-From-To: msaitoh->dyoung
Responsible-Changed-By: msaitoh@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri, 20 May 2016 04:29:56 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
Please add note to the manual :)


State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
State-Changed-By: msaitoh@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Fri, 20 May 2016 04:29:56 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
This is not a bug but the limitation of the chip.


From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/50933 CVS commit: src/sbin/ifconfig
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 09:39:43 -0500

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	christos
 Date:		Tue Mar  9 14:39:43 UTC 2021

 Modified Files:
 	src/sbin/ifconfig: ifconfig.8

 Log Message:
 PR/50933: Uwe Toenjes: Document hardware limitations


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.121 -r1.122 src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->feedback
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 22:17:05 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
is Christos's change adequate?


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