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Subject: RE: DEC driver DMA Underflow
From: "Jeff Hill" <[email protected]>
To: "'Matt Rippa'" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:10:04 -0700
> Is CA designed to survive such an event?

Yes, if the IP kernel stalls the socket and then resumes data transmission
later, or if the IP kernel disconnects the socket. I do recall that on the
AFEL project at LANL that network interface resets didn?t result in proper
recovery of the situation by the vxWorks IP kernel. This was observed with
vxWorks running on the NI CPU030 VXI CPU, and the conclusion was based on
the IP kernel being unresponsive to ping, telnet, etc.

The CA design in EPICS R3.14 _is_ more robust in congestion stall situations
since it will disconnect the application, but not the socket when there is
an unresponsive circuit timeout. This design avoids positive congestion
feedback. Also, many subtle issues have been fixed in R3.14.

Jeff
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Matt Rippa
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:24 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: DEC driver DMA Underflow
> 
> Hello -
> 
> We're running an IOC on a MVME2700 board with VxWorks5.5 and
> EPICS 3.13.9. Yesterday we logged a DMA underflow event from the
> network which resulted in a restart of the driver. CA couldn't
> survive and we quickly had S_errno_ENOBUFS. We had to reboot to
> recover.
> 
> Does the DMA underflow indicate a bus error? Is CA designed to
> survive such an event? Short of upgrading to EPICS 3.14.x is
> there anything that can be done to prevent this?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Matt
> 
> 
> 
> Here's some relevant code from the end driver:
> 
> /* restart if DMA underflow is detected */
> 
> if (pTxD->tDesc0 & PCISWAP(TDESC0_UF))
> {
>   LOG_MSG ("%s%d - fatal DMA underflow\n",
>   (int) DRV_NAME, pDrvCtrl->unit, 0, 0, 0, 0);
> 
>    dec21x4xStop (pDrvCtrl);
>    pDrvCtrl->txCleaning = FALSE;
>    netJobAdd ((FUNCPTR)dec21x4xRestart, (int)pDrvCtrl, 0, 0, 0, 0);
>    return;
> }



References:
DEC driver DMA Underflow Matt Rippa

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