You are right that driver only dump HW ring if adapter resets. However, in case
of *true* tx hang , driver should tx_timeout that will reset the adapter and if
msglvl is set correctly it will dump HW ring.
If you’re not seeing tx_timeout I believe it’s a false tx hang. Check with
‘ethtool –S eth
Hi, in regards to the ring dump, this is the response I received from the
Debian kernel team:
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The ring dump is only shown in case the driver resets the chip, and it
doesn't do that in the case of Hardware Unit Hang. So I think whichever
developer told you this was confu
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:42:22 -0700
Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> wrote:
> > Trying to setup new X540 card I have is not allowing VF's to be setup.
> >
> > [ 11.481677] ixgbe: Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network Driver -
> > version 3.8.21-k
