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Message-Id: <1804A45E-71B5-4C41-839C-AF0CFAD0D785@canonical.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 18:49:22 +0800
From:   Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
To:     "Neftin, Sasha" <sasha.neftin@...el.com>
Cc:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
        Anthony Wong <anthony.wong@...onical.com>,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RX CRC errors on I219-V (6) 8086:15be

at 14:26, Neftin, Sasha <sasha.neftin@...el.com> wrote:

> On 6/26/2019 09:14, Kai Heng Feng wrote:
>> Hi Sasha
>> at 5:09 PM, Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Jeffrey,
>>>
>>> We’ve encountered another issue, which causes multiple CRC errors and  
>>> renders ethernet completely useless, here’s the network stats:
>> I also tried ignore_ltr for this issue, seems like it alleviates the  
>> symptom a bit for a while, then the network still becomes useless after  
>> some usage.
>> And yes, it’s also a Whiskey Lake platform. What’s the next step to  
>> debug this problem?
>> Kai-Heng
> CRC errors not related to the LTR. Please, try to disable the ME on your  
> platform. Hope you have this option in BIOS. Another way is to contact  
> your PC vendor and ask to provide NVM without ME. Let's start debugging  
> with these steps.

According to ODM, the ME can be physically disabled by a jumper.
But after disabling the ME the same issue can still be observed.

Kai-Heng

>>> /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics$ grep . *
>>> collisions:0
>>> multicast:95
>>> rx_bytes:1499851
>>> rx_compressed:0
>>> rx_crc_errors:1165
>>> rx_dropped:0
>>> rx_errors:2330
>>> rx_fifo_errors:0
>>> rx_frame_errors:0
>>> rx_length_errors:0
>>> rx_missed_errors:0
>>> rx_nohandler:0
>>> rx_over_errors:0
>>> rx_packets:4789
>>> tx_aborted_errors:0
>>> tx_bytes:864312
>>> tx_carrier_errors:0
>>> tx_compressed:0
>>> tx_dropped:0
>>> tx_errors:0
>>> tx_fifo_errors:0
>>> tx_heartbeat_errors:0
>>> tx_packets:7370
>>> tx_window_errors:0
>>>
>>> Same behavior can be observed on both mainline kernel and on your  
>>> dev-queue branch.
>>> OTOH, the same issue can’t be observed on out-of-tree e1000e.
>>>
>>> Is there any plan to close the gap between upstream and out-of-tree  
>>> version?
>>>
>>> Kai-Heng


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