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Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:50:38 -0700
From:	"Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
To:	"Jean-Louis Dupond" <info@...ondje.be>
cc:	"Matthew Carlson" <mcarlson@...adcom.com>,
	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David Christensen" <davidch@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: tg3 driver not advertising 1000mbit

O.K.  ASF is enabled.  Can you give me the output of 'ethtool -i eth0'
on as late a kernel (or driver version) as you can?  This should give me
the firmware version number.

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 02:58:24AM -0700, Jean-Louis Dupond wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Got the output for gbit & 100mbit now.
> 
> GBIT:
> eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95722) rev a200] (PCI Express) MAC address 
> 00:22:19:be:c4:48
> eth0: attached PHY is 5722/5756 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
> eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[1] TSOcap[1]
> eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
> tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
> tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> 
> 
> 100mbit (sometimes it goes 100mbit instead of gbit also):
> eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95722) rev a200 PHY(5722/5756)] (PCI Express) 
> 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet 00:22:19:c7:28:c3
> eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[1] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
> eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
> tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
> tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> 
> 
> Cables are 2 meters long & cat 5e. The servers are in racks, so its all 
> near each other :)
> 
> 
> Matt Carlson schreef:
> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 02:33:03PM -0700, Jean-Louis Dupond wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> All tested kernels had the same issue (2.6.22, 2.5.25.4 & 2.6.28.1).
> > 
> > O.K.  So that means the problem wasn't recently introduced.  Good to
> > know.
> > 
> >> dmesg |grep tg3:
> >>
> >> tg3.c:v3.97 (December 10, 2008)
> >> tg3 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> >> tg3 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> >> tg3 0000:01:00.0: PME# disabled
> >> tg3 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> >> tg3 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> >> tg3 0000:02:00.0: PME# disabled
> >> tg3 0000:01:00.0: PME# disabled
> >> tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
> >> tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> >>
> >> Now here it booted @ Gbit speeds!
> > 
> > The specific set of lines I'm looks something like this:
> > 
> > eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95722) rev a200] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:10:18:15:16:b6
> > eth0: attached PHY is 5722/5756 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
> > eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
> >                                         ^^^^^^
> > eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
> > 
> > 
> > Like Michael, I'm tempted to look into the cabling too.  How long are
> > they?  Silly question, but are they Cat5e?  When link does come up, does
> > it take unusually long?
> > 
> >> Matt Carlson schreef:
> >>> Was there a version of the kernel where this device worked reliably?
> >>>
> >>> Can you post the driver sign-on messages?  (I'm looking to see if ASF
> >>> is enabled.)
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:16:59PM -0700, Jean-Louis Dupond wrote:
> >>>> I surely tried other cables. But its surely not the cable because:
> >>>> 1) We tried other cables
> >>>> 2) After a reboot it works, or after a mii-tool -R
> >>>> 3) We have this issue on like +100 servers :(
> >>>>
> >>>> The servers are connected on a Dell PowerConnect 6248 switch.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sincerely
> >>>>
> >>>> Michael Chan schreef:
> >>>>> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:51 -0700, Jean-Louis Dupond wrote:
> >>>>>> Hello!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Here is a mii-tool -vvv on a box that doesn't advertise gbit speeds! It 
> >>>>>> just doesn't advertise gbit @ random, sometimes it does, sometimes not! 
> >>>>>> Without any logic in it!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> # mii-tool  -vvv
> >>>>>> Using SIOCGMIIPHY=0x8947
> >>>>>> eth0: link ok
> >>>>>>     registers for MII PHY 1:
> >>>>>>       1000 794d 0143 bed0 05e1 0000 0064 2001
> >>>>>>       0000 0300 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 3000
> >>>>> Register 1 shows that autoneg did not complete (bit 5 is not set).
> >>>>> The tg3 device has advertised 10/100/1000 in register 4 and register 9,
> >>>>> but registers 5 and 0xa (link partner's advertisement registers are 0).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> When it works, these registers should look very different.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Have you tried other cables?  What is the link partner?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>       0000 0101 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >>>>>>       7477 0104 0000 ffff 2801 0000 8000 0000
> >>>>>>     product info: vendor 00:50:ef, model 45 rev 0
> >>>>>>     basic mode:   autonegotiation enabled
> >>>>>>     basic status: link ok
> >>>>>>     capabilities: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD
> >>>>>> 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
> >>>>>>     advertising:  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-
> >>>>>> control
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> # dmesg | grep tg3
> >>>>>> [    3.331702] tg3.c:v3.92.1 (June 9, 2008)
> >>>>>> [   18.238654] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 10 Mbps, half duplex.
> >>>>>> [   18.238654] tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
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