Re: [Ocf-linux-users] PD: OCF's ixp4xx freeze on 2.6.18-rt7

[Tomasz R. <tro...@pr...>]

David,

> David,
> 
>> Jivin Tomasz Rostanski lays it down ...
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>>> Jivin Tomasz Rostanski lays it down ...
>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>> Jivin Tomasz Rostanski lays it down ...
>>>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you made any progress?
>>>>>> Yep,  sorry for the delay,  just ran it up on 2.6.23 using CSR2.4 and
>>>>>> ocf.  Seems to be ok.  Haven't tried ipsec yet,  but openssl speed
>>>>>> works fine (although throughput seems to be down).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The driver is at least processing requests ok.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you installing the correct NPE code with something like:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     cat /etc/IxNpeMicrocode.dat >/dev/ixNpe
>>>>> I have NPE code compiled in. I have also made a build without 
>>>>> compiling it in, the result was the same.
>>>> We have an updated patch for CSR-2.4 at:
>>>>
>>>>     http://www.snapgear.org/snapgear/downloads.html
>>>>
>>>> might be something in there that helps you.  I am effectively 
>>>> running SG
>>>> Linux 3.5 on my IXP425's with that access lib patch applied,
>>>
>>> I have imported this patch (not everything I need) to our trunk and 
>>> checked with the OCF 20070727 and... is working!
>>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> No problems,  glad it worked ;-)
> 
> But now I have a problems with openssh.
> 
> When I run first "openssl speed -evp des -elapsed -engine cryptodev"
> 
> I got:
> 
> # ssh 192.168.0.10
> [  151.390000] ixp_newsession()
> [  151.400000] ixp_freesession()
> [  151.400000] ixp_newsession()
> [  151.400000] ixp_freesession()
> [  151.410000] ixp_newsession()
> [  151.410000] ixp_freesession()
> [  151.410000] ixp_newsession()
> [  151.420000] ixp_freesession()
> [  151.440000] ixp_newsession()
> [  151.440000] ixp_freesession()
> [  151.450000] ixp_newsession()
> [  151.450000] ixp_freesession()
> [  151.450000] ixp_newsession()
> [  151.460000] ixp_freesession()
> [  151.460000] ixp_newsession()
> [  151.460000] ixp_freesession()
> [  151.470000] ixp_newsession()
> [  151.470000] ixp_freesession()
> [  151.470000] ixp_newsession()
> [  151.470000] ixp_freesession()
> [  151.480000] ixp_newsession()
> [  151.480000] ixp_freesession()
> [  151.480000] ixp_newsession()
> [  151.490000] ixp_freesession()
> The authenticity of host '192.168.0.10 (192.168.0.10)' can't be 
> established.
> RSA key fingerprint is 4d:4c:97:d9:0b:48:35:f4:5d:e5:3b:1a:55:ff:87:57.
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
> Warning: Permanently added '192.168.0.10' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
> [  153.270000] ixp_newsession()
> [  153.270000] ixp_newsession()
> [  153.280000] ixp_process()
> [  153.280000] ixp_register_cb(-1031187288, 00000000, 0)
> [  153.280000] ixp_process_pending(c3575400)
> [  153.290000] ixp_process_pending in while
> [  153.290000] ixp_q_process(c28949e0)
> evp_crypt: EVP_Cipher failed
> [  153.300000] ixp_freesession()
> [  153.300000] ixp_freesession()
> 
> but when I run ssh without running openssl speed before I got the freeze 
> in ixp_q_process.
> 
> Do you use some patch for ssh too? I found some patches which adds some 
>  openssl engine initialization to ssh but it won't helped.

I have used the cryptosoft module with the debugging enabled instead of 
ixp4xx and ssh worked. So it seems that there is still some problem with 
the ixp4xx module...

Tomasz