Greg,
Thank you for your help!
In the OEL 5.5 guest domain, its ethtool reports strange results of
virtual interfaces of Twinville:
Supports auto-negotiation: No ( We think this should be Yes )
Advertised auto-negotiation: No ( We think this should be Yes )
Port: Unknown! (255) ( We think this should be Twisted Pair )
Transceiver: Unknown! ( We think this should be external )
Auto-negotiation: off ( We think this should be on )
Do you see this problem in your guest OS OEL 5.6 and 5.5?
For details:
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eth5 and eth6 are virtual interfaces of Twinville
[root@Twinville_VM_156 ~]# ethtool eth5
Settings for eth5:
Supported ports: [ ]
Supported link modes: 10000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Unknown! (255)
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: Unknown!
Auto-negotiation: off
Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
Link detected: yes
[root@Twinville_VM_156 ~]#
[root@Twinville_VM_156 ~]# ethtool eth6
Settings for eth6:
Supported ports: [ ]
Supported link modes: 10000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Unknown! (255)
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: Unknown!
Auto-negotiation: off
Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
Link detected: yes
[root@Twinville_VM_162 ~]# ethtool -i eth5
driver: ixgbevf
version: 2.4.0-NAPI
firmware-version: N/A
bus-info: 0000:00:08.0
[root@Twinville_VM_162 ~]#
[root@Twinville_VM_162 ~]# ethtool -i eth6
driver: ixgbevf
version: 2.4.0-NAPI
firmware-version: N/A
bus-info: 0000:00:09.0
[root@Twinville_VM_162 ~]#
[root@Twinville_VM_156 ~]# more /etc/*release
::::::::::::::
/etc/enterprise-release
::::::::::::::
Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Carthage)
::::::::::::::
/etc/redhat-release
::::::::::::::
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)
[root@Twinville_VM_156 ~]#
Thanks,
David
On 01/09/12 09:52, Rose, Gregory V wrote:
> David,
>
> We've found that if we use RHEL 5.5 as the guest then the bug still occurs
> but if we upgrade the guest OS to RHEL 5.6 then it does not occur. So it
> does not appear to be a driver bug. It looks like some issue with RHEL 5.5
> and OEL 5.5.
>
> We suggest upgrading to 5.6.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Greg
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rose, Gregory V
>> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 4:32 PM
>> To: Rose, Gregory V; Kirsher, Jeffrey T; [email protected]
>> Cc: e1000-devel; Allan, Bruce W; Brandeburg, Jesse; Steve Sarvate
>> Subject: RE: Question about ixgbevf driver
>>
>> David,
>>
>> We've confirmed the bug and are looking into it. We'll keep you updated
>> on what we find.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Greg
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Rose, Gregory V [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 8:06 AM
>>> To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; [email protected]
>>> Cc: e1000-devel; Allan, Bruce W; Brandeburg, Jesse; Steve Sarvate
>>> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Question about ixgbevf driver
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Kirsher, Jeffrey T
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 7:58 PM
>>>> To: [email protected]; Rose, Gregory V
>>>> Cc: Brandeburg, Jesse; Allan, Bruce W; Steve Sarvate; e1000-devel
>>>> Subject: Re: Question about ixgbevf driver
>>>>
>>>> Adding e1000-devel mailing list as well as Greg Rose (ixgbevf
>>>> maintainer)...
>>>
>>> I've never noticed this before but then I can't say as how I was looking
>>> for it either. Let me check it out and I'll get back to you.
>>>
>>> - Greg
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 17:26 -0800, David Yeung wrote:
>>>>> Hi Bruce/Jeffrey/Jesse/,
>>>>>
>>>>> How do you do?
>>>>> We are using the ixgbevf driver ( version: 2.4.0-NAPI ) to test
>> the
>>>>> VLAN interfaces of Twinville NICs inside the OEL 5 virtual machine,
>> it
>>>>> looks like the bi-directional network traffic ran properly on the
>> VLAN
>>>>> interfaces of Twinville NICs inside the OEL 5 virtual machine for
>>>>> hours, but the ifconfig command reports strange amount ( it is 0 all
>>>>> the time ) of RX packets and RX bytes of VLAN interfaces of
>>> Twinville:
>>>>>
>>>>> [root@Twinville_VM_156 ~]# ifconfig
>>>>> .........................................
>>>>> eth6.10 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F2:54:11:05:72:7C
>>>>> inet addr:192.6.10.156 Bcast:192.6.10.255
>>>> Mask:255.255.255.0
>>>>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:9210 Metric:1
>>>>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>>> TX packets:111332155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>>> carrier:0
>>>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>>>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2565278846027 (2.3 TiB)
>>>>>
>>>>> eth6.11 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F2:54:11:05:72:7C
>>>>> inet addr:192.6.11.156 Bcast:192.6.11.255
>>>> Mask:255.255.255.0
>>>>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:9210 Metric:1
>>>>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>>> TX packets:111289098 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>>> carrier:0
>>>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>>>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2562582125939 (2.3 TiB)
>>>>>
>>>>> eth6.12 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F2:54:11:05:72:7C
>>>>> inet addr:192.6.12.156 Bcast:192.6.12.255
>>>> Mask:255.255.255.0
>>>>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:9210 Metric:1
>>>>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>>> TX packets:111287930 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>>> carrier:0
>>>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>>>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2564949229588 (2.3 TiB)
>>>>>
>>>>> eth6.13 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F2:54:11:05:72:7C
>>>>> inet addr:192.6.93.156 Bcast:192.6.93.255
>>>> Mask:255.255.255.0
>>>>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:9210 Metric:1
>>>>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>>> TX packets:111070858 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>>> carrier:0
>>>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>>>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2566358628283 (2.3 TiB)
>>>>>
>>>>> eth6.14 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F2:54:11:05:72:7C
>>>>> inet addr:192.6.14.156 Bcast:192.6.14.255
>>>> Mask:255.255.255.0
>>>>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:9210 Metric:1
>>>>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>>> TX packets:111362848 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>>> carrier:0
>>>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>>>> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2566349976603 (2.3 TiB)
>>>>> .........................................
>>>>>
>>>>> [root@Twinville_VM_156 ~]# ethtool -i eth6
>>>>> driver: ixgbevf
>>>>> version: 2.4.0-NAPI
>>>>> firmware-version: N/A
>>>>> bus-info: 0000:00:09.0
>>>>> [root@Powerville_VM_156 ~]#
>>>>>
>>>>> [root@Twinville_VM_156 ~]# cat /etc/*release
>>>>> Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Carthage) Red
>>>>> Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)
>>>>> [root@Twinville_VM_156 ~]#
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have any idea about this problem? Any workaround/fix for this
>>>>> problem?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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