Re: [E1000-devel] i40e: Deadly GRE packet

2016-04-21 Thread Ronciak, John
Thanks, Please get us the other information we have asked for. Cheers, John From: Michał Mirosław [mailto:michal.miros...@atendesoftware.pl] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 8:04 AM To: Ronciak, John Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; intel-wired-...@lists.osuosl.org; Pawel Malachowski

Re: [E1000-devel] i40e: Deadly GRE packet

2016-04-21 Thread Ronciak, John
> -Original Message- > From: Michał Mirosław [mailto:michal.miros...@atendesoftware.pl] > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 5:45 AM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; intel-wired-...@lists.osuosl.org > Cc: Paweł Małachowski ; mirq- > li...@rere.qmqm.pl > Subject: [E1000-devel] i40e: Dead

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe 4.3.13 x Linux 4.5.0 = Compilation Faillure

2016-03-20 Thread Ronciak, John
; From: Fujinaka, Todd > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 10:16 AM > To: Ronciak, John ; Skidmore, Donald C > ; Leonardo Amaral - Listas > > Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] ixgbe 4.3.13 x Linux 4.5.0 = Compilation Faillure > > No, this is an

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe 4.3.13 x Linux 4.5.0 = Compilation Faillure

2016-03-19 Thread Ronciak, John
No this is a CentOS kernel so I don't know why a kcompat change is needed but I guess it is. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Skidmore, Donald C [mailto:donald.c.skidm...@intel.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:45 AM > To: Leonardo Amaral - Listas ; Fujinaka, > Todd > C

Re: [E1000-devel] Poor IPsec performance and high ksoftirqd load

2016-02-29 Thread Ronciak, John
bject: Re: [E1000-devel] Poor IPsec performance and high ksoftirqd load > > > > Am 29.02.2016 um 16:15 schrieb Anna Fischer: > > > > > > Am 26.02.2016 um 17:31 schrieb Ronciak, John: > >> Hi Anna, > >> > >>> I have tried with multipl

Re: [E1000-devel] Poor IPsec performance and high ksoftirqd load

2016-02-29 Thread Ronciak, John
gree. If the stack is being overrun then that is what is happening. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Anna Fischer [mailto:a.fisc...@sirrix.com] > Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 7:16 AM > To: Ronciak, John ; e1000- > de...@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re:

Re: [E1000-devel] Poor IPsec performance and high ksoftirqd load

2016-02-26 Thread Ronciak, John
you running out of CPU cycles or are packets being dropped causing retransmitted packets? Use netstat and ethtool to look for dropped packets. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Anna Fischer [mailto:a.fisc...@sirrix.com] > Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 12:10 AM > T

Re: [E1000-devel] Poor IPsec performance and high ksoftirqd load

2016-02-26 Thread Ronciak, John
As Todd points out we aren't the CPU folks but until you run the CPU out of cycles in the test you probably can't tell what's going on regarding throughput. Thanks. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Anna Fischer [mailto:a.fisc...@sirrix.com] > Se

Re: [E1000-devel] error while compiling ixgbe

2016-02-26 Thread Ronciak, John
To be clear here, compile issues were not fixed until Canonical put in the version number in to the Ubuntu releases which was either 15.04 or 15.10. Before that we were not able to programmatically determine what kernel the driver was being compiled for and so we were not able to fix the compil

Re: [E1000-devel] Poor IPsec performance and high ksoftirqd load

2016-02-25 Thread Ronciak, John
> -Original Message- > From: Anna Fischer [mailto:a.fisc...@sirrix.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 10:53 AM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [E1000-devel] Poor IPsec performance and high ksoftirqd load > > Hi, > > I'm running Linux 4.3.3 (Gentoo) and standard ig

Re: [E1000-devel] e1000 i82573 rotting packet?

2016-02-19 Thread Ronciak, John
Hi Mattias, First of all there is no real firmware that runs on these e1000 support devices. So I want to make that clear that there isn't something running behind the scenes. If you really turned off the interrupt delay and NAPI is off the issue is most likely because of the write-back thres

Re: [E1000-devel] [Intel-wired-lan] e1000e driver - version 3.3.3

2016-01-26 Thread Ronciak, John
Thanks Todd. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Fujinaka, Todd > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 10:57 AM > To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Szymon Tokarski > Cc: e1000-devel; Ronciak, John; Templeman, Chaim > Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] [Intel-wired-lan] e1000e driv

Re: [E1000-devel] X557-AT2 Problems

2016-01-05 Thread Ronciak, John
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Walsh [mailto:expressweb...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 1:24 PM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [E1000-devel] X557-AT2 Problems > > Okay, I am at my wits end here with these NICs. > > We have a total of six X10SDV-TNL4F m

Re: [E1000-devel] Intel 82551IL chips

2015-09-16 Thread Ronciak, John
oba...@prosoftsystems.ru] > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 10:20 PM > To: Ronciak, John; Fujinaka, Todd; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: Intel 82551IL chips > > I want to give a small addition: even the chip is EOL, but we have a big > number of embedded d

Re: [E1000-devel] Driver Version for 15aa x552

2015-09-16 Thread Ronciak, John
The first upstream kernel was 3.19. Is that what you are asking? Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Gooch, Stephen (Wind River) [mailto:stephenx.go...@intel.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 1:21 PM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [E1000-devel] Driver V

Re: [E1000-devel] Intel 82551IL chips

2015-09-15 Thread Ronciak, John
As long as there is no copy and pasting from the Linux driver to the QNX driver it should not be a problem. I'm not a lawyer but that's generally the case. That said, since the driver works after another a second reboot it's probably not related to the driver. This is probably something that

Re: [E1000-devel] igb: Decrease time until link is up

2015-06-30 Thread Ronciak, John
> So, assuming the setting was picked up, there is no improvement. > > Currently, the system is faster up than the network device tries to configure > the link. Do you have any other suggestions? > > Aren’t there really any other options to easily debug/instrument the Linux > kernel module to be

Re: [E1000-devel] CONFIG_IXGBE_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT in ixgbe nic driver

2015-06-25 Thread Ronciak, John
There was no patch attached. Please post the patch inline in the email in case the patch gets stripped from the email again. Thanks. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: zhuyj [mailto:zyjzyj2...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:06 AM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge

Re: [E1000-devel] [TEST PATCH] ixgbe: Avoid needless phy access on copper phys

2015-06-25 Thread Ronciak, John
There was no patch attached. Can you please post the patch also inline of the email in case the patch gets stripped again? Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: shouta.ueh...@jp.yokogawa.com > [mailto:shouta.ueh...@jp.yokogawa.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 10:06 PM > To: Rus

Re: [E1000-devel] VF inside VM with bypassed PCI-E ixgbe

2015-06-19 Thread Ronciak, John
ilto:pavel.odint...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 9:04 AM > To: Ronciak, John > Cc: Skidmore, Donald C; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] VF inside VM with bypassed PCI-E ixgbe > > Hello, folks! > > Thanks for answer! Really important informa

Re: [E1000-devel] VF inside VM with bypassed PCI-E ixgbe

2015-06-19 Thread Ronciak, John
In addition Pavel you should go back to the Intel Field person you got the NIC's from to get the enabling code. Most people who buy these NIC's are building their own kernels which have the modified driver which includes this code. That code can't be pushed upstream as there is no generic kern

Re: [E1000-devel] igb driver sometimes stops responding after dkms build

2015-06-08 Thread Ronciak, John
We think that maybe you are having link issues since the problem is intermittent and moving from machine to machine. If it more repeatable on a since system we could do more. Please check the link at the switch port to see if it think it has link on that failing system. Thanks. Cheers, John

Re: [E1000-devel] [linux-nics] Arm64 kernel crashes with e1000e driver

2015-04-09 Thread Ronciak, John
ing the laundry-list of cc's because I think I'm the only > >> one on > 82574L support on Linux at this time. > >> > >> Todd Fujinaka > >> Software Application Engineer > >> Networking Division (ND) > >> Intel Corporation >

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Hardware Unit Hang

2015-03-25 Thread Ronciak, John
Can you try KVM to see if it's also happening there? Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Zoltán Halassy [mailto:cf0...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 1:55 AM > To: Ronciak, John > Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel]

Re: [E1000-devel] Detected Hardware Unit Hang

2015-03-20 Thread Ronciak, John
Hi Zoltan, Sorry to hear that you are having problems. Does this happen on the same system when _not_ using Xen? This device has been in out for a very long time and we have not had reports come in like this. So please let us know if running without Xen changes it's behavior. Thanks. Cheer

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h

2015-03-12 Thread Ronciak, John
2015 6:00 PM > To: Ronciak, John > Cc: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; e1000-devel; Tantilov, Emil S > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Ronciak, John > wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > > >> I think that's the n

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h

2015-03-10 Thread Ronciak, John
ks. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Bob Liu [mailto:lliu...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 7:26 AM > To: Ronciak, John > Cc: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; e1000-devel; Tantilov, Emil S > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h > &

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h

2015-03-10 Thread Ronciak, John
> -Original Message- > From: Jeff Kirsher [mailto:jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:38 AM > To: Bob Liu > Cc: e1000-devel; Tantilov, Emil S > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h > > On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 21:29 +0800, Bob Liu wrote

Re: [E1000-devel] X550 vxlan support?

2015-03-09 Thread Ronciak, John
They are not available publically yet. Certain select OEM's and other customers have the adapters in hard and are testing the upstream driver. You wil have to wait for them to be shipping (post release) before you will be able to buy them. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Fa

Re: [E1000-devel] i350 - NVM Checksum Is Not Valid

2015-03-04 Thread Ronciak, John
gt; -Original Message- > From: Jeremiah Brock [mailto:jbr...@everettcc.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 11:35 AM > To: Ronciak, John > Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] i350 - NVM Checksum Is Not Valid > > Hello John, > >

Re: [E1000-devel] i350 - NVM Checksum Is Not Valid

2015-03-04 Thread Ronciak, John
Where did the NIC come from? Is it a new NIC? Is this only happening with this Security Onion 1204 (probably very old driver)? Can you boot a live image of Ubuntu 14.10 or even 14.04 to see if that works? Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Jeremiah Brock [mailto:jbr...@everett

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] i40e: don't enable and init FCOE by default when do PF reset

2015-01-09 Thread Ronciak, John
Adding Vasu and Neerav Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Ethan Zhao [mailto:ethan.z...@oracle.com] > Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 8:38 AM > To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Brandeburg, Jesse; Allan, Bruce W; Wyborny, Carolyn; > Skidmore, Donald C; Rose, Gregory V; Vick, M

Re: [E1000-devel] Driver 4 Intel NetEffect 10Ge ?

2015-01-05 Thread Ronciak, John
No you need the ne020 driver. It's in any recent Linux kernel. You could always search for the PCI device ID in the Linux source to tell you which driver supports your particular device. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: John Donnelly [mailto:b24warb...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monda

Re: [E1000-devel] Porting 82574L driver to 82576 RX problems

2014-12-29 Thread Ronciak, John
HI Brandon, You haven't given us much to go on here. Is this on x86 (Intel) architecture or something else? Is the system cache coherent? Is it set up of big or little end-in? If the DD bit is never getting set it could be a cache coherency problem of some kind. Have you done a PCI bus tra

Re: [E1000-devel] I217-LM

2014-11-24 Thread Ronciak, John
Please do not include attachments. Include the error messages in-line of the email. We are going to need much more detail of what you are trying to do and what the actual error case is. Include what version of everything you are using in the email. Cheers, John > -Original Message-

Re: [E1000-devel] 802.3x pause frames

2014-11-06 Thread Ronciak, John
o see that pause frame works with our HW and drivers? Like for some sort of validation that they actually work? Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Julia Niewiejska [mailto:julia.niewiej...@fkie.fraunhofer.de] > Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 5:31 AM > To: Ronciak,

Re: [E1000-devel] 802.3x pause frames

2014-11-05 Thread Ronciak, John
Julia, First we can't help you with your Realtec issue. Not our driver. The only time when you'll notice actual pauses in traffic due to XON/XOFF will be when the link is saturated to the point where packets would be dropped with the HW (on the end that is XON/XOFF enabled). So in using ping

Re: [E1000-devel] Implementing RX_FCS for ixgbe

2014-10-31 Thread Ronciak, John
David, > How best would we go about getting this functionality into the standard > driver? I suspect my initial experiments would need some work to watch out > for corner cases and interactions with other adapter features. I would suggest working on submitting changes to ethtool to enable the feat

Re: [E1000-devel] issus with Kernel header files not in any of the expected locations

2014-10-29 Thread Ronciak, John
The kernel headers get installed when the kernel-devel package is installed. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks Todd. Cheers, John -Original Message- From: Hisashi T Fujinaka [mailto:ht...@twofifty.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:26 PM To: Ronciak, John Cc: Freelance48; e1000

Re: [E1000-devel] issus with Kernel header files not in any of the expected locations

2014-10-27 Thread Ronciak, John
You most likely did not install the kernel headers package. Cheers, John -Original Message- From: Freelance48 [mailto:freelance...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 2:55 PM To: e1000-de...@lists.sf.net Subject: [E1000-devel] issus with Kernel header files not in any of the expec

Re: [E1000-devel] 82599 physical bonding and SRIOV VF issue

2014-10-21 Thread Ronciak, John
What do you mean by "outside the network"? Outside of what network? Like anther address on the same subnet or something that has to go through a router or bridge? If you don't bond the interfaces does it work? Also, what kind of system is this one? What Linux version? Version of the ixgbe d

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe and pausing NICs

2014-09-05 Thread Ronciak, John
So it looks like you are losing link between the NIC and the switch. It can take up to 4 seconds to regain link in auto-neg configurations. So have you tried different cables? Any set of cables show the issues more than others? Do you see the problem on all port of the switch or only some o

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: remove the check: skb->len<=0

2014-05-13 Thread Ronciak, John
> -Original Message- > From: xuyongjia...@gmail.com [mailto:xuyongjia...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 10:07 PM > To: eric.duma...@gmail.com > Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; net...@vger.kernel.org; linux- > ker...@vger.kernel.org; Yongjian Xu > Subject: [E1000-devel] [PATC

Re: [E1000-devel] e1000 driver

2014-04-17 Thread Ronciak, John
> -Original Message- > From: CHEN Cliff [mailto:cliff.c...@alcatel-lucent.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 1:58 AM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [E1000-devel] e1000 driver > > Is there any High-level design doc for e1000 driver? > > Regards > Cliff Are you lookin

Re: [E1000-devel] igb: v5.2.5 fails doing NVM checksum check on i211

2014-04-14 Thread Ronciak, John
> Hi, > > using the IGB driver v5.2.5 together with several i211 NICs I see that > all of them are not correctly set up because of NVM checksum errors > reported. > > Adding a few debug messages I get: > > [2.605249] e1000_validate_nvm_checksum_generic > [2.605483] e1000_validate_nvm_che

Re: [E1000-devel] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: Hardware Error

2014-04-10 Thread Ronciak, John
Boris, What kind of system (platform) is this happening on? It's a LOM correct? Can you run 'lspci -vvv' and output the results? Thanks. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:b...@alien8.de] > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 5:00 AM > To: e1000-devel@lists

Re: [E1000-devel] Bringing down igb interface causes 200ms latency in unrelated processes

2014-03-26 Thread Ronciak, John
, 2014 11:21 AM > To: Rustad, Mark D > Cc: Ronciak, John; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Bringing down igb interface causes 200ms > latency in unrelated processes > > Yes, I think that's the issue. With our 20ms timeslots it was taking >

Re: [E1000-devel] Bringing down igb interface causes 200ms latency in unrelated processes

2014-03-25 Thread Ronciak, John
> -Original Message- > From: Aaron Brice [mailto:aaron.br...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 5:54 PM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [E1000-devel] Bringing down igb interface causes 200ms latency > in unrelated processes > > I have a 12 CPU server with 3 4-por

Re: [E1000-devel] i217-LM boot wreckage

2014-03-21 Thread Ronciak, John
> -Original Message- > From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:t...@linutronix.de] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 7:52 AM > To: Ertman, DavidX M > Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; net...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] i217-LM boot wreckage > > On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Thomas Gleixner

Re: [E1000-devel] igb serial number register

2014-03-11 Thread Ronciak, John
If you are looking for the serial number use ethtool to read it. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Nomad Esst [mailto:noname.e...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 11:37 PM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [E1000-devel] igb serial number register > > Hi

Re: [E1000-devel] [BUG] e1000e: box will not stay off after a shutdown if WOL is enabled in the BIOS

2014-03-05 Thread Ronciak, John
> This is very odd.  I booted into Windows to verify what settings it > uses for this NIC relating to WOL.  What I found: > [x] Wake on Magic Packet > [x] Wake on Pattern Match > [x] Wake of Magic Packet from power off state > > I shutdown from Windows and again, it went down and did not wake up.

Re: [E1000-devel] [BUG] e1000e: box will not stay off after a shutdown if WOL is enabled in the BIOS

2014-02-28 Thread Ronciak, John
m: John [mailto:da_audioph...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 3:23 PM > To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Brandeburg, Jesse; Allan, Bruce W; Wyborny, > Carolyn; Skidmore, Donald C; Rose, Gregory V; Duyck, Alexander H; > Ronciak, John; Williams, Mitch A > Cc: da_audioph...@yah

Re: [E1000-devel] dual e100 'exec cuc_dump_reset' vs PCI latency (possibly vs Tulip)

2014-02-19 Thread Ronciak, John
s. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert [mailto:d...@treblig.org] > Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 12:13 PM > To: Ronciak, John > Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] dual e100 'exec cuc_dump_reset

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe 3.19.1 unable to build PTP

2014-02-13 Thread Ronciak, John
Do you have the kernel configured to have PTP support? I'm guessing not which is causing this problem. Please check your kernel configuration. Thanks. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Fred Klassen [mailto:fklas...@appneta.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:33 AM > T

Re: [E1000-devel] DCA on Sandy Bridge?

2014-02-13 Thread Ronciak, John
r that supports DCA. Cheers, John From: Scott Silverman [mailto:ssilver...@simplexinvestments.com] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 8:28 AM To: Ronciak, John Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] DCA on Sandy Bridge? John, Thanks for the prompt response, but I

Re: [E1000-devel] dual e100 'exec cuc_dump_reset' vs PCI latency (possibly vs Tulip)

2014-02-12 Thread Ronciak, John
e- > From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert [mailto:d...@treblig.org] > Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 12:16 PM > To: Ronciak, John > Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] dual e100 'exec cuc_dump_reset' vs PCI > latency (possibly vs Tulip) >

Re: [E1000-devel] DCA on Sandy Bridge?

2014-02-10 Thread Ronciak, John
The driver is just telling you what's possible not that DCA is enabled. The newer chipsets do not included it as it's all DDIO. So even though the NIC's is capable of support DCA the chipset does not have it so it won't be used. That's all this is saying. It's not an issue at all. Cheers, J

Re: [E1000-devel] dual e100 'exec cuc_dump_reset' vs PCI latency (possibly vs Tulip)

2014-02-03 Thread Ronciak, John
Hi Dave, Please see my comments in-line below. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert [mailto:d...@treblig.org] > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 12:11 PM > To: Ronciak, John > Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-deve

Re: [E1000-devel] dual e100 'exec cuc_dump_reset' vs PCI latency (possibly vs Tulip)

2014-02-03 Thread Ronciak, John
Some list removed for now What do the HW stats for the failing port say? Is it receiving what it thinks are packets that a problem in some way? Is there a way to change the MTU being used on the camera that is causing the problem? Does moving the problem camera link to the other e100 port wo

Re: [E1000-devel] igb-5.1.2 compilation fails

2014-01-30 Thread Ronciak, John
Maybe but does it compile correctly if you don't specify -pae? I don't think we test for that config option anymore and I'm pretty sure a generic 3.2 kernel will compile the driver correctly it's probably something like this. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Lauper Alexander

Re: [E1000-devel] How to program NVM for i210 NIC with igb driver?

2014-01-30 Thread Ronciak, John
Hi Alexander, You need to get the tools and the NVM image from your field person from Intel that sold you the i210 parts. You should be under NDA and your field person will be able to get you the tools and the initial NVM image for you to put into the NVM of the parts. Let me know if your Int

Re: [E1000-devel] How to program NVM for i210 NIC with igb driver?

2014-01-30 Thread Ronciak, John
Where did you buy the parts (the i210 parts) from? They are only sold from suppliers that have the Intel contacts for supplying the tools and images needed for HW development. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Lauper Alexander [mailto:alexander.lau...@comlab.ch] > Sent: Thursd

Re: [E1000-devel] 3.13: e1000e triggers BUG in IRQ handling

2014-01-29 Thread Ronciak, John
rently cannot change anything on that machine. As soon as I can, I > will try the driver. Is it enough to test some up-to-date -next tree? > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Jiri Slaby [mailto:jirisl...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jiri > Slaby > >> Sent: Sunday, Ja

Re: [E1000-devel] i210 flash initialization

2014-01-23 Thread Ronciak, John
Hi Jean-Francois, You will need to use another utility called "eeupdate" to program the flash. The field person you got bootutil from should have also given you eeupdate. The tool is under NDA as the only people that need it are the actual HW developers implementing designs using the device.

Re: [E1000-devel] Unplugging ethernet cable causes 'e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: Detected Hardware Unit Hang:'

2014-01-22 Thread Ronciak, John
This could be a BIOS issue. Do you have the latest one for your system? It looks like the Ethernet device wasn't suspended correctly which seems to be happening here. So this doesn't happen if you have a cable with link plugged in to the port? Are you also saying that it's only happening on

Re: [E1000-devel] DH8900 MAC and I210-AT LAN driver conflict

2013-11-12 Thread Ronciak, John
Where is the output from the calls I asked you for? Please attach the output. Thanks. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Evan.Wang(王维) [mailto:evan.w...@advantech.com.cn] > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 8:32 PM > To: Ronciak, John; e1000-de...@lists.sf.net > Cc

Re: [E1000-devel] DH8900 MAC and I210-AT LAN driver conflict

2013-11-12 Thread Ronciak, John
Please supply the output from 'lspci -vvv' as well as 'ifconfig -a'. That will tell us which of our devices are in the system. When you use the term "MACs" below do you mean the 4 Ethernet ports on the motherboard? Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Evan.Wang(王维) [mailto:evan.

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe 13.16.1 statistics are not updating into /proc/net/dev

2013-10-28 Thread Ronciak, John
I think you are pinging yourself (the same machine that you just configured, 10.0.77.1). So the packets aren't really going out to the system and back into the system. Ping a remote machine that is on the same subnet and see what it does. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: ve

Re: [E1000-devel] pci.updates file entries

2013-10-28 Thread Ronciak, John
This has been fixed and there will be an update KMP from SuSE that will have it fixed. Our stand-alone drivers don't do this so it's not an issue with those. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Bill Snapko [mailto:bsna...@sgi.com] > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 12:36 PM > To: e

Re: [E1000-devel] Intel I350, igb and overruns/rx_fifo_errors/queue drops

2013-10-25 Thread Ronciak, John
> -Original Message- > From: Kristian Kielhofner [mailto:k...@kriskinc.com] > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 12:01 PM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [E1000-devel] Intel I350, igb and > overruns/rx_fifo_errors/queue drops > > Hello, > > I have a brand new Dell R620 wi

Re: [E1000-devel] Unprogrammed i210 with igb driver

2013-10-11 Thread Ronciak, John
Hello, Why would you have an unprogrammed i210 device/NIC? Did something happen to the system the device or NIC was in? What type of system is the i210 in? Since you are asking for an eepromARMtool I'm assuming that the i210 is in some sort of ARM system. Is that correct? Where did the sys

Re: [E1000-devel] Ixgbe can not be recognized !

2013-10-09 Thread Ronciak, John
Does it work OK with a newer kernel? Like 3.10? What are the device ID's of the NIC's? Use 'lspci -vvv' to print out the ID's. Did you check for a BIOS update for the platform? Please see if you have the latest BIOS on the system. If not, please update it. Please let us know. Thanks. C

Re: [E1000-devel] [linux-nics] e1000e: link up and down issue with TP-Link WDR4300 router

2013-09-09 Thread Ronciak, John
> -Original Message- > From: Dâniel Fraga [mailto:frag...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 11:47 PM > To: Ronciak, John > Cc: 'e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net' > Subject: Re: [linux-nics] e1000e: link up and down issue with TP-Link > WDR4300 router

Re: [E1000-devel] [linux-nics] e1000e: link up and down issue with TP-Link WDR4300 router

2013-09-08 Thread Ronciak, John
Just to you and e1000-devel Hi Daniel, These types of link partner problems do come up. Most times there is nothing that the end-point system can do about it as the actual problem is on the router/switch side of things. The way end-points get around things like this is start the whole link

Re: [E1000-devel] 82599 RSS double VLAN capability

2013-09-08 Thread Ronciak, John
Hi Steve, Thanks for the tip. Maybe we should add this to the readme or something like that. I'll see what we can do. Thanks again. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Steve O'Brien [mailto:obr...@velocent.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 6:58 PM > To: 'e1000-devel@list

Re: [E1000-devel] e1000 nic hang after a long time running

2013-08-15 Thread Ronciak, John
You don't know what the problem is however even though you made a code change where you don't see the issue any more. Before a patch can be applied there needs to root cause of the issue and there isn't enough information to understand what the issue really is. The e1000 driver has been in use

Re: [E1000-devel] PF still in reset state and vpd r/w failed

2013-08-07 Thread Ronciak, John
Is the PF interface up and working before you bring up the VF? Cheers, John From: William Tu [mailto:u9012...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 2:30 PM To: Ronciak, John Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] PF still in reset state and vpd r/w failed Hi John

Re: [E1000-devel] PF still in reset state and vpd r/w failed

2013-08-07 Thread Ronciak, John
ugust 07, 2013 1:39 PM To: Ronciak, John Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] PF still in reset state and vpd r/w failed Hi John, No... after loading the ixgbe with no VF, I did not see any interface brought up by ixgbe. However, the message did not should any err

Re: [E1000-devel] PF still in reset state and vpd r/w failed

2013-08-07 Thread Ronciak, John
Try a stable kernel and not an RC. Also something newer, like 3.10 or Fedora 19. Cheers, John From: William Tu [mailto:u9012...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 2:06 PM To: Ronciak, John Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] PF still in reset state and vpd

Re: [E1000-devel] PF still in reset state and vpd r/w failed

2013-08-07 Thread Ronciak, John
Does the ixgbe driver work with any virtualization? Like bare metal 10 gig interface in the host system? Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: William Tu [mailto:u9012...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 1:17 PM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [E1000

Re: [E1000-devel] Zero-Copy Support

2013-08-02 Thread Ronciak, John
I think you are going to have some issue because you are trying to have the HW do some filtering which a driver (or existing user-space tool) would need to be in communications with your application to do this. That's why the PF_RING is processing all the packets. In your case you are trying t

Re: [E1000-devel] Possible races in e1000

2013-08-02 Thread Ronciak, John
Have you seen an actual problem where this has really happened? It's unclear to me that this can happen with how the locks are implemented. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Eugene Shatokhin [mailto:eugene.shatok...@rosalab.ru] > Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 8:27 AM > To: e100

Re: [E1000-devel] [RFC] igb: minimize busy loop on igb_get_hw_semaphore

2013-07-12 Thread Ronciak, John
The request for stats should be happening only once every 2 seconds. Do you have a script pounding on getting stats repeatedly? Are you sure that it's the request for stats that is causing the issue you are seeing or are you guessing that this is the case? Can you make this happen without bon

Re: [E1000-devel] igb: cannot receive packets bigger than mtu

2013-07-12 Thread Ronciak, John
BTW, this is in reference to using ping with larger sized frames. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Ronciak, John [mailto:john.ronc...@intel.com] > Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 9:40 AM > To: Jagdish Motwani; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E

Re: [E1000-devel] igb: cannot receive packets bigger than mtu

2013-07-12 Thread Ronciak, John
Yes the patch is still needed. Setting the MTU smaller than a normal packet will cause the frame to be IP fragmented. So you should be seeing at least 2 packets on the wire being IP fragments. Use wireshark (or something similar) to make sure those packets make it to on to the wire. Cheers,

Re: [E1000-devel] e1000e on thinkpad x60: interrupt problem

2013-07-09 Thread Ronciak, John
; From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pa...@ucw.cz] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:49 PM > To: Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P > Cc: Ronciak, John; Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Brandeburg, Jesse; Allan, Bruce > W; Wyborny, Carolyn; Skidmore, Donald C; Rose, Gregory V; Duyck, > Alexander H; Dave, Tush

Re: [E1000-devel] e1000e on thinkpad x60: interrupt problem

2013-07-09 Thread Ronciak, John
Jesse; Allan, Bruce W; Wyborny, > Carolyn; Skidmore, Donald C; Rose, Gregory V; Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P; > Duyck, Alexander H; Ronciak, John; Dave, Tushar N; e1000- > de...@lists.sourceforge.net; net...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: e1000e on thinkpad x60: interrupt problem > > H

Re: [E1000-devel] Intel 82599 Driver dropping packets Queue Receive Descriptor Head

2013-07-08 Thread Ronciak, John
So are you using DPDK as Don asked previously? Cheers, John From: Kaushal Bhandankar [mailto:kaushal...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 9:39 AM To: Skidmore, Donald C; Ronciak, John Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Intel 82599 Driver dropping packets

Re: [E1000-devel] igb 4.3 from intel same as upstream ?

2013-06-27 Thread Ronciak, John
There can be but it depends on timing of releases and the kernel merge windows. One may be ahead of the other for a short period of time. We do everything we can to keep them as close as possible. This is true for all our current drivers. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: D

Re: [E1000-devel] Intel 82599 Driver dropping packets Queue Receive Descriptor Head

2013-06-18 Thread Ronciak, John
Are the packets being dropped by the HW or by the SW somewhere? Read the actual HW stats using ethtool to see if the HW is seeing all the packets. Thanks. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Kaushal Bhandankar [mailto:kaushal...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 7:32 PM >

Re: [E1000-devel] Regarding 82599 SR-IOV support in MSI

2013-06-17 Thread Ronciak, John
V; Skidmore, Donald C > Cc: Ronciak, John; Kirsher, Jeffrey T; e1000- > de...@lists.sourceforge.net; Brandeburg, Jesse > Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] Regarding 82599 SR-IOV support in MSI > > Hi Greg, > > By the way, I have Intel Centerton (S1200) board also. As far as I know

Re: [E1000-devel] Regarding 82599 SR-IOV support in MSI

2013-06-14 Thread Ronciak, John
e interrupt for everything so there is no way to differentiate. That is the problem and why MSI-X is required. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: mhban [mailto:mh...@samsung.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 7:50 PM > To: Ronciak, John; Skidmore, Donald C; Kirsher,

Re: [E1000-devel] Regarding 82599 SR-IOV support in MSI

2013-06-13 Thread Ronciak, John
Hello, No it's not possible. MSI-X is needed so that interrupts can be routed to each guest. With MSI there is only a single interrupt so there is no way to route it to multiple VF's. MSI-X is a requirement for SR-IOV support. So don's comments below are correct. Sorry. Does this system

Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-06 Thread Ronciak, John
site)? Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: pla...@gmail.com [mailto:pla...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Peter > LaDow > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 1:22 PM > To: Ronciak, John > Cc: Brandeburg, Jesse; Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P; e1000- > de...@lists.sourceforge.net > Subj

Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-06 Thread Ronciak, John
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 12:40 PM > To: Ronciak, John > Cc: Brandeburg, Jesse; Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P; e1000- > de...@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000 > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Ronciak, John > wrote: > >

Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-06 Thread Ronciak, John
. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Brandeburg, Jesse > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:34 AM > To: Peter LaDow > Cc: Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Ronciak, > John; Brandeburg, Jesse > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with

Re: [E1000-devel] Memory Corruption with e1000

2013-06-05 Thread Ronciak, John
Hi Peter, So I have a couple of questions. Does this happen with a non-preemptive kernel? I understand that you probably need to use a preemptive kernel but for testing purposes it would be good to know. We don't always test with preemptive kernels. When doing the up/down transitions is t

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe

2013-04-30 Thread Ronciak, John
I think you want to look at using raw sockets from your user-space application. The raw socket will allow you to send and receive data directly without the network stack touching the packets. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Yupeng Zhu [mailto:ypzhu1...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tue

Re: [E1000-devel] [linux-nics] False ethtool report on Link Detection

2013-04-03 Thread Ronciak, John
Hi, If you have to "up" the interface to get link (actual link reported by both sides of the connection) then this is correct. If the switch side (assuming switch) is reporting link but the NIC side is not then there may be something else going on. Do you have the interface configured to co

Re: [E1000-devel] WARNING triggered by e100 driver

2013-03-19 Thread Ronciak, John
Hi Alan, You found the right people for looking into this. Indeed this looks to be an issue for one of the two calls. Since we are going to have to recode the area around the call a bit please give a bit to get a test version ready. Once we versify that it works we'll push upstream and give

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