netdev - Re: 2.6.20-rc1 sky2 problems (regression?)

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Date:	Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:31:46 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
To:	Alex Romosan <romosan@...orax.lbl.gov>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc1 sky2 problems (regression?)

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:21:00 -0800
Alex Romosan <romosan@...orax.lbl.gov> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org> writes:
> 
> > Another useful bit of information is the statistics (ethtool -S eth0).
> > When there were flow control bugs, they would show up as count of 1.
> 
> the driver locked up again, even with msi interrupts disabled and
> idle_timeout=10. the console message was pretty much as before:
> 
> kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> kernel: sky2 eth0: tx timeout
> kernel: sky2 eth0: transmit ring 336 .. 296 report=336 done=336
> kernel: sky2 hardware hung? flushing
> kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> kernel: sky2 eth0: tx timeout
> kernel: sky2 eth0: transmit ring 296 .. 255 report=336 done=336
> kernel: sky2 status report lost?
> 
> and this is the output from ethtool -S:
> 
> NIC statistics:
>      tx_bytes: 3092123897
>      rx_bytes: 546577898
>      tx_broadcast: 20
>      rx_broadcast: 4376
>      tx_multicast: 0
>      rx_multicast: 459
>      tx_unicast: 2585993
>      rx_unicast: 1550758
>      tx_mac_pause: 1

If this is repeatable... and mac_pause is always one then the
problem is hardware flow control.  I saw bugs before in the bus
interface where it would not resume on unaligned buffer, but
that was on receive.
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