netdev - Re: [PATCH] sky2: receive dma mapping error handling

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Date:	Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:07:40 -0500
From:	Michael Breuer <mbreuer@...jas.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	flyboy@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	Don Fry <pcnet32@...izon.net>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2:  receive dma mapping error handling

On 02/03/2010 11:56 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:47:19 -0500
> Michael Breuer<mbreuer@...jas.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Tracked this down. The status being returned is 0x3c0080 - good flow
>> control packets. Nothing is actually being dropped (confirmed by packet
>> trace on switch compared with packet trace on server).
>>
>> I whipped up a trivial patch to not count these as dropped packets and
>> will post to netdev.
>>
>> I'm not really sure what the driver should be doing in this case, but
>> resubmit seems to work.
>>      
> Looks like a flow control negotiation issue. You probably turned off
> flow control on the Linux side, but the switch is still doing flow
> control.
>
>    
According to the driver:
Feb  3 12:03:02 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full 
duplex, flow control both

So if the rx flow control packet status is due to flow control being 
disabled, then there's a different issue.


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