From: Stephen Hemminger on
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:47:19 -0500
Michael Breuer <mbreuer(a)majjas.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.

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From: Michael Breuer on
On 02/03/2010 11:56 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:47:19 -0500
> Michael Breuer<mbreuer(a)majjas.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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From: Justin P. Mattock on
On 02/03/10 08:56, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:47:19 -0500
> Michael Breuer<mbreuer(a)majjas.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.
>

I noticed this in a hotel last week, I can try
at the home to see if this fires of, if so
I can test any patches you have.

Justin P. Mattock
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From: Stephen Hemminger on
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:23:01 -0800
"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/03/10 09:07, Michael Breuer wrote:
> > On 02/03/2010 11:56 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:47:19 -0500
> >> Michael Breuer<mbreuer(a)majjas.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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>
> hmm.. after an hour or so I'm not seeing anything.
> from what I remember I turned the machine on in the
> hotel, then left the system there as I went out for a few hours
> (so maybe I need to wait).
>
> Anyways I did keep dmesg of when this occurred, basically
> the log was spammed with these:
>
> [ 863.294057] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x580002 length 88
> [ 865.646645] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
> [ 1286.420471] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
> [ 1286.499459] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
> [ 1746.903826] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
> [ 1754.263692] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
> [ 1755.309360] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x680002 length 104
> [ 2213.256294] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
> [ 2219.653342] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x580002 length 88
> [ 2221.673601] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
> [ 2679.654655] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x680002 length 104
> [ 2692.315058] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x500002 length 80
> [ 2694.349612] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x580002 length 88
> [ 2703.676717] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x700002 length 112
> [ 2703.826375] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
> [ 3187.504843] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
> [ 3189.560744] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
> [ 3672.475719] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x680002 length 104
> [ 3676.696959] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x680002 length 104
>
> but while using the system with this, I didn't notice anything
> out of the ordinary.
> (if this fires off I can try a bisect for you guys, but right now
> since I'm not seeing anything, might be a different story);
>

You were on a crappy hotel switch. Those are all CRC errors.



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From: Justin P. Mattock on
On 02/03/10 09:07, Michael Breuer wrote:
> On 02/03/2010 11:56 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:47:19 -0500
>> Michael Breuer<mbreuer(a)majjas.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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hmm.. after an hour or so I'm not seeing anything.
from what I remember I turned the machine on in the
hotel, then left the system there as I went out for a few hours
(so maybe I need to wait).

Anyways I did keep dmesg of when this occurred, basically
the log was spammed with these:

[ 863.294057] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x580002 length 88
[ 865.646645] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
[ 1286.420471] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
[ 1286.499459] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
[ 1746.903826] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
[ 1754.263692] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
[ 1755.309360] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x680002 length 104
[ 2213.256294] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
[ 2219.653342] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x580002 length 88
[ 2221.673601] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
[ 2679.654655] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x680002 length 104
[ 2692.315058] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x500002 length 80
[ 2694.349612] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x580002 length 88
[ 2703.676717] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x700002 length 112
[ 2703.826375] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
[ 3187.504843] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
[ 3189.560744] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x600002 length 96
[ 3672.475719] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x680002 length 104
[ 3676.696959] sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x680002 length 104

but while using the system with this, I didn't notice anything
out of the ordinary.
(if this fires off I can try a bisect for you guys, but right now
since I'm not seeing anything, might be a different story);

Justin P. Mattock
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