Bug#681089: firmware-linux-nonfree: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 dropped packets
On 06/01/13 02:44, Ben Hutchings wrote: If I understand your original report correctly, the tg3 driver in Debian kernel version 2.6.32-45 fails periodically and the driver in version 3.2.20-1~bpo60+1 does not. So we need to look for a fix to the driver that was made between those versions. Let me know if my understanding is correct. Ben. Sorry for not updating. The current versions in squeeze seems to be fine now running for days without incident. elbournb@red:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-46) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 10:07:46 UTC 2012 elbournb@red:~$ sudo ethtool -i eth0 driver: tg3 version: 3.116 firmware-version: 5722-v3.07, ASFIPMI v6.02 bus-info: :11:00.0 I can easily move this system to the backport kernel for a few days. Would that be a valid test to close the issue for Wheezy too? Huge thanks, Berni -- Confidence is what you have before you understand a problem - Woody Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50eaae7a.5090...@gmail.com
Bug#681089: firmware-linux-nonfree: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 dropped packets
Control: tag -1 unreproducible On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 11:16 +, Berni Elbourn wrote: On 06/01/13 02:44, Ben Hutchings wrote: If I understand your original report correctly, the tg3 driver in Debian kernel version 2.6.32-45 fails periodically and the driver in version 3.2.20-1~bpo60+1 does not. So we need to look for a fix to the driver that was made between those versions. Let me know if my understanding is correct. Ben. Sorry for not updating. The current versions in squeeze seems to be fine now running for days without incident. elbournb@red:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-46) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 10:07:46 UTC 2012 There have been no changes to tg3 between 2.6.32-45 and -46, so there cannot have been any bug fix. elbournb@red:~$ sudo ethtool -i eth0 driver: tg3 version: 3.116 firmware-version: 5722-v3.07, ASFIPMI v6.02 bus-info: :11:00.0 I can easily move this system to the backport kernel for a few days. Would that be a valid test to close the issue for Wheezy too? If you can't reproduce the bug on squeeze now, then I don't think you can tell whether it has been fixed in any other version. Perhaps there was a change in some external condition that triggered it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#681089: firmware-linux-nonfree: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 dropped packets
The BCM5722 firmware is all in flash, not loaded from disk. (The description of firmware-linux-nonfree lists all the chips that it provides firmware for.) Therefore, you have not found a bug in firmware-linux-nonfree, but in the tg3 driver or firmware in flash. Also, any problems with a driver package you got from Broadcom must be reported to Broadcom - not to Debian. As for the increase in the RX dropped counter: since Linux 2.6.37 this includes packets that were dropped by the kernel before protocol processing, which were not previously counted at all. So this probably does not indicate a regression in the driver. If I understand your original report correctly, the tg3 driver in Debian kernel version 2.6.32-45 fails periodically and the driver in version 3.2.20-1~bpo60+1 does not. So we need to look for a fix to the driver that was made between those versions. Let me know if my understanding is correct. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#681089: firmware-linux-nonfree: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 dropped packets
Package: firmware-linux-nonfree Version: 0.35~bpo60+1 Severity: normal With standard squeeze kernel seemingly once a day the nic stops working. Looking at the switch port it seems the nic is transmitting (or retransmitting) something as fast as possible. A simple ifdown/ifup seems to cure for rest of working day. The latest backport kernel 3.2.20-1~bpo60+1 and firmware-linux-nonfree_0.35~bpo60+1 the nic does seems to be stable. iperf reports 1gb performance. However the count of dropped packets is not zero. I have changed cables and switch ports. There is another other gigabit nic on the switch. This is a nVidia Corporation MCP77 and this has no errors or dropped packets. I also have tried the module 3.122n from Broadcom. The nic stops working after a few minutes with the switch port showing rapid transmission sympton as per 1st para. Interestingy the 3.122n module does not update the firmware files in /lib/firmware... $ cat /proc/version Linux version 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (Debian 3.2.20-1~bpo60+1) (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8) ) #1 SMP Fri Jun 29 20:42:29 UTC 2012 lspci: 11:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5722 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express $ sudo ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on MDI-X: Unknown Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00ff (255) Link detected: yes $ sudo ethtool -k eth0 Offload parameters for eth0: rx-checksumming: on tx-checksumming: on scatter-gather: on tcp-segmentation-offload: on udp-fragmentation-offload: off generic-segmentation-offload: on generic-receive-offload: on large-receive-offload: off ntuple-filters: off receive-hashing: off $ sudo ethtool -i eth0 driver: tg3 version: 3.121 firmware-version: 5722-v3.07, ASFIPMI v6.02 bus-info: :11:00.0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:5a:d3:d0:0c inet addr:192.168.2.10 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::221:5aff:fed3:d00c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:123154 errors:0 dropped:26 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:131936 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:15913111 (15.1 MiB) TX bytes:107913843 (102.9 MiB) Interrupt:19 $ sudo modinfo tg3 filename: /lib/modules/3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.ko firmware: tigon/tg3_tso5.bin firmware: tigon/tg3_tso.bin firmware: tigon/tg3.bin version:3.121 license:GPL description:Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver author: David S. Miller (da...@redhat.com) and Jeff Garzik (jgar...@pobox.com) srcversion: B3CF27212BBCF0D51E64F1E alias: pci:v10CFd11A2sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v106Bd1645sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v173Bd03EAsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v173Bd03EBsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v173Bd03E9sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v173Bd03E8sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1148d4500sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v1148d4400sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d165Fsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1657sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d16B6sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d16B2sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d16B4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d16B0sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d16B5sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d16B1sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1656sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1655sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1691sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1694sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1690sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1692sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d16A0sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1699sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1689sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1688sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1680sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1681sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d165Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v14E4d1684sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias:
