netdev - Re: BQL support in gianfar causes network hickup

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Date:	Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:55:39 -0500
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	"Keitel, Tino (ALC NetworX GmbH)" <Tino.Keitel@...networx.de>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@...ei.de>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BQL support in gianfar causes network hickup

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Keitel, Tino (ALC NetworX GmbH)
<Tino.Keitel@...networx.de> wrote:
> On Di, 2012-11-27 at 05:32 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 13:42 +0100, Keitel, Tino (ALC NetworX GmbH)
>> wrote:
>> > On Di, 2012-11-27 at 04:36 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Can you reproduce the problem using a single cpu ?
>> >
>> > Yes, it is a single-CPU system.
>>
>> Can you reproduce the problem without PTP running, or disabled in the
>> driver ?
>>
>> (comment the "priv->hwts_tx_en = 1;" line)
>
> I can't reproduce it with that line commented. However, so far I was
> only able to reproduce it when starting the ptp2 client, so maybe this
> is connected.

How critical is ptp2 for this?  And/or the platform details?  I can
try and reproduce it on an mpc8349 system and/or an mpc8548
system (and even an mpc8641D system) but I'd rather know that
was a meaningful chase and not a snipe hunt before going there.

So, in that respect, a "If you run this, you will get this" type of
error message would be good.   I understand that may be too
idealistic, though.

Thanks,
Paul.
--

>
>> By the way are any errata flagged in gfar_detect_errata() ?
>
> This is from dmesg:
>
> fsl-gianfar e0024000.ethernet: enabled errata workarounds, flags: 0x7
>
> 0x7 would be GFAR_ERRATA_74, GFAR_ERRATA_76 and GFAR_ERRATA_A002
> according to drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h.
>
> Regards,
> Tino
>
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