netdev - Re: tg3 adapter losing link

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Message-ID: <51840676.5000004@broadcom.com>
Date:	Fri, 3 May 2013 11:48:22 -0700
From:	"Nithin Nayak Sujir" <nsujir@...adcom.com>
To:	"Ben Hutchings" <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
cc:	"Nikola Ciprich" <nikola.ciprich@...uxbox.cz>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tg3 adapter losing link - PM related?



On 05/03/2013 11:39 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 08:13 -0700, Nithin Nayak Sujir wrote:
>> Hi Nikola,
>> 1. What device is present on this server? Can you give the tg3 messages
>> in /var/log/messages? Can you also give the output of "ethtool -i <iface>"?
>>
>> 2. Is it possible for you to try the latest 3.9 upstream kernel?
>>
>> 3. Any reason why the link is at 100Mb? The switch does not support gig?
>> What switch is it?
>>
>> 4. I don't think you can turn off EEE in the bios, but you can try
>> turning autoneg off. Try "ethtool -s <iface> speed 100 duplex full
>> autoneg off". It's not exactly the same thing since the device still has
>> EEE enabled but not negotiated.
> [...]
>
> It should be possible to disable EEE with ethtool.  You really should
> implement the EEE configuration operations in tg3 if you're going to
> enable it at all.
>

I agree. I plan to have a patch when netdev opens.

> Ben.
>

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