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Message-ID: <20120313095942.GC2239@minipsycho.brq.redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:59:42 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	e1000-devel list <e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VLAN regression caused by: e1000: do vlan cleanup (799d531).

Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 07:17:51PM CET, greearb@...delatech.com wrote:
>This commit breaks 802.1Q VLANs on my e1000 NIC, and it remains broken in top-of-tree
>(as of 2 days ago, at least).
>
>commit 5622e4044a916de1af84bfcc4d437ce0c799d531
>Author: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>Date:   Thu Jul 21 03:26:31 2011 +0000
>
>    e1000: do vlan cleanup
>
>    - unify vlan and nonvlan rx path
>    - kill adapter->vlgrp and e1000_vlan_rx_register
>    - allow to turn on/off rx/tx vlan accel via ethtool (set_features)
>
>    Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
>
>
>My OS is RH 8, 32-bit.
>
>My e1000 hardware is:
>
>05:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
>	Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapter
>	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
>	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>	Latency: 52 (63750ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
>	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 24
>	Region 0: Memory at d8100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
>	Region 4: I/O ports at 3000 [size=64]
>	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
>		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
>		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
>	Capabilities: [e4] PCI-X non-bridge device
>		Command: DPERE- ERO+ RBC=512 OST=1
>		Status: Dev=05:01.0 64bit+ 133MHz+ SCD- USC- DC=simple DMMRBC=2048 DMOST=1 DMCRS=16 RSCEM- 266MHz- 533MHz-
>	Capabilities: [f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
>		Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
>	Kernel driver in use: e1000
>	Kernel modules: e1000
>
>05:01.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
>	Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapter
>	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
>	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>	Latency: 52 (63750ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
>	Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 25
>	Region 0: Memory at d8120000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
>	Region 4: I/O ports at 3040 [size=64]
>	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
>		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
>		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
>	Capabilities: [e4] PCI-X non-bridge device
>		Command: DPERE- ERO+ RBC=512 OST=1
>		Status: Dev=05:01.1 64bit+ 133MHz+ SCD- USC- DC=simple DMMRBC=2048 DMOST=1 DMCRS=16 RSCEM- 266MHz- 533MHz-
>	Capabilities: [f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
>		Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
>	Kernel driver in use: e1000
>	Kernel modules: e1000
>
>
>I'm attaching ethregs output from good and bad kernels, in case that helps.
>
>The symptom is that pkts show up as 'ISL' instead of Ethernet frames.  I'm
>including a capture of that as well.  I am sending UDP pkts from one NIC to the other,
>on vlan 8, though because ARP fails, no UDP is ever sent.  The sniff shows rcvd pkts
>as looking funky, but it could be they are transmitted badly once they hit the NIC,
>so I don't know if it's actually rx or tx (or both) logic that is busted at this point.
>
>I'm using routing rules to make send-to-self work, but the kernel is un-patched.
>
>Please let me know if you need additional info.  I'll be happy to test patches,
>I have a good setup to reproduce this easily.

Thanks for the report Ben.

It would help it you try to enable/disable vlan hw accel by ethtool to
see if it helps.

I have suspition that vlan filter must be on/offed along with vlan
accel.

Thanks.

Jirka

>
>Thanks,
>Ben
>
>-- 
>Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
>Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
>




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