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Message-Id: <201112102231.31206.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:31:31 +0100
From: Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
David Decotigny <david.decotigny@...gle.com>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: forcedeth doesn't pass traffic (3.0.x kernel and earliers)
On Saturday 10 of December 2011, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have few supermicro machines connected to edge-core switch using 1Gbps
> uplink. The problem is that after boot I have to restart net to get
> network card pass traffic. The problem is only with forcedeth network
> cards. It happens on different supermicro servers and it happens for as
> far as I can remember (so, 2.6.3x kernels, too). Currently I'm on 3.0.13.
>
> Logs below show state after fresh boot where network traffic doesn't get
> through. Note that it shows that link is up but still - traffic doesn't
> get passed. tcpdump on eth0 interface sees only traffic initiated from
> this server and no traffic from outside.
>
> Tried to set every offload (via ethtool -K) to off but that didn't help.
>
> I have to make:
> ip link set eth0 down; ip link set eth0 up
> wait few second and then traffic starts to get passed. When I do that this
> shows in dmesg: [ 1058.266480] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: irq 40 for
> MSI/MSI-X
> [ 1069.163238] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
One more note. This doesn't always happens like that. Sometimes I boot
and I get link working, traffic gets passed fine:
[ 34.038476] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.64.
[ 34.038698] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] enabled at IRQ 22
[ 34.038705] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LMAC] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 34.038710] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 34.565309] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x5043 @ 2, addr 00:30:48:7a:b4:88
[ 34.565314] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: highdma csum vlan pwrctl mgmt gbit lnktim msi desc-v3
[ 34.566823] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAD] enabled at IRQ 21
[ 34.566831] forcedeth 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LMAD] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[ 34.566836] forcedeth 0000:00:09.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 35.091341] forcedeth 0000:00:09.0: ifname eth1, PHY OUI 0x5043 @ 3, addr 00:30:48:7a:b4:89
[ 35.091346] forcedeth 0000:00:09.0: highdma csum vlan pwrctl mgmt gbit lnktim msi desc-v3
[ 35.093492] Loading kernel module for a network device with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev-eth0 instead
[ 35.101074] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: irq 40 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 35.101267] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: eth0: no link during initialization
[ 35.102322] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 35.663785] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 35.756083] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max)
[ 37.147869] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: eth0: link up
[ 37.149108] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 47.176677] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>
> (CC to few people shown by get_maintainer.pl)
>
> LOGS/OUTPUTs from non working state after fresh boot.
> # dmesg|grep eth
> [ 34.528326] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver.
> Version 0.64. [ 34.528542] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: PCI INT A ->
> Link[LMAC] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 [ 34.528547] forcedeth
> 0000:00:08.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 35.055319] forcedeth
> 0000:00:08.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x5043 @ 2, addr 00:30:48:7a:b4:88 [
> 35.055324] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: highdma csum vlan pwrctl mgmt gbit
> lnktim msi desc-v3 [ 35.056480] forcedeth 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A ->
> Link[LMAD] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 [ 35.056485] forcedeth
> 0000:00:09.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 35.581960] forcedeth
> 0000:00:09.0: ifname eth1, PHY OUI 0x5043 @ 3, addr 00:30:48:7a:b4:89 [
> 35.581965] forcedeth 0000:00:09.0: highdma csum vlan pwrctl mgmt gbit
> lnktim msi desc-v3 [ 35.584211] Loading kernel module for a network
> device with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias
> netdev-eth0 instead [ 35.591778] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: irq 40 for
> MSI/MSI-X
> [ 35.591970] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: eth0: no link during initialization
> [ 35.593030] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> [ 37.666757] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: eth0: link up
> [ 37.668624] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> [ 48.150006] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>
> lspci -vv:
> 00:09.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a3)
> Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device 1611
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+
> ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> Latency: 0 (250ns min, 5000ns max)
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
> Region 0: Memory at feaf5000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> Region 1: I/O ports at b080 [size=8]
> Region 2: Memory at feafa000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
> Region 3: Memory at feaf4c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0
> DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable- Count=8 Masked-
> Vector table: BAR=2 offset=00000000
> PBA: BAR=3 offset=00000000
> Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable+ 64bit+
> Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
> Masking: 00000000 Pending: 00000000
> Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable- Fixed+
> Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
>
> # ethtool eth0
> Settings for eth0:
> Supported ports: [ MII ]
> Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
> 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
> 1000baseT/Full
> Supported pause frame use: No
> Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
> Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
> 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
> 1000baseT/Full
> Advertised pause frame use: No
> Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
> Speed: 1000Mb/s
> Duplex: Full
> Port: MII
> PHYAD: 2
> Transceiver: external
> Auto-negotiation: on
> Supports Wake-on: g
> Wake-on: d
> Link detected: yes
>
> # ethtool -S eth0
> NIC statistics:
> tx_bytes: 46352
> tx_zero_rexmt: 704
> tx_one_rexmt: 0
> tx_many_rexmt: 0
> tx_late_collision: 0
> tx_fifo_errors: 0
> tx_carrier_errors: 0
> tx_excess_deferral: 0
> tx_retry_error: 0
> rx_frame_error: 0
> rx_extra_byte: 0
> rx_late_collision: 0
> rx_runt: 0
> rx_frame_too_long: 0
> rx_over_errors: 1
> rx_crc_errors: 0
> rx_frame_align_error: 0
> rx_length_error: 0
> rx_unicast: 31
> rx_multicast: 0
> rx_broadcast: 436
> rx_packets: 467
> rx_errors_total: 1
> tx_errors_total: 0
> tx_deferral: 0
> tx_packets: 704
> rx_bytes: 35872
> tx_pause: 0
> rx_pause: 0
> rx_drop_frame: 170
>
> # ethtool -k eth0
> Offload parameters for eth0:
> rx-checksumming: on
> tx-checksumming: on
> scatter-gather: on
> tcp-segmentation-offload: on
> udp-fragmentation-offload: off
> generic-segmentation-offload: on
> generic-receive-offload: on
> large-receive-offload: off
> rx-vlan-offload: on
> tx-vlan-offload: on
> ntuple-filters: off
> receive-hashing: off
>
>
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc sfq state UP qlen
> 1000 link/ether 00:30:48:7a:b4:88 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
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