On 10/22/2010 04:41 PM, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Chris Friesen wrote:
>>> Where do we go from here? If this is something that occurs on other >>> boards would it make sense for the driver to provide a way to turn off >>> the automasking? (Module parameter perhaps?) > > The question becomes why haven't we been able to reproduce this and why > haven't we seen it before? I'm betting that there is something wrong with > the MSI-X semantics of either your kernel or the system hardware. > > We are getting pretty big exposure with this driver and hardware to a lot > of different environments (including other PPC/PPC64) and haven't heard > reports of this yet. Our scenario is x86_64, not ppc. I've had one person email me privately expressing interest in the patch. I don't want to out them without permission, but I'll suggest that they respond to this with their symptoms and whether or not the patch helps. > I also didn't see where you disabled EIAM in the patch, is that separate? That's what this hunk is intended for. Did I miss something? >> @@ -3886,7 +3886,7 @@ static int ixgbe_up_complete(struct ixgbe_adapter >> *adapter) >> break; >> default: >> case ixgbe_mac_82599EB: >> - IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_EIAM_EX(0), 0xFFFFFFFF); >> + IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_EIAM_EX(0), 0xFFFF0000); >> IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_EIAM_EX(1), 0xFFFFFFFF); >> break; >> } Chris -- Chris Friesen Software Developer GENBAND chris.frie...@genband.com www.genband.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
