Re: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e

2012-10-01 Thread Ronciak, John
; From: Kristian Kielhofner [mailto:k...@kriskinc.com] > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 8:24 PM > To: Ronciak, John > Cc: Dave, Tushar N; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e > > John, > > I have more detail for y

Re: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e

2012-09-28 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
John, I have more detail for you. I've been able to identify a single ethernet frame that (upon receipt) can cause this error. The ethernet frame is attached (pod-t22.pcap). Technically speaking this frame contains an SDP syntax error (duplication) but that shouldn't matter to the e1000e/82

Re: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e

2012-09-27 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
John, Yes, we have had the driver report NIC corruption regularly. In most cases the eeprom_fix script is able to restore these although sometimes the EEPROM corruption returns. We've actually had to build a special version of the e1000e driver that allows the device to initialize even when th

Re: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e

2012-09-27 Thread Ronciak, John
ceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e > > Hello John, > > This system is a Lex Atom D525 based system: > > http://www.lex.com.tw/product/SbcBoard-home-Pineview.htm > > There are four 82574L NICs in our configuration. These system

Re: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e

2012-09-27 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
Message- >> From: Dave, Tushar N [mailto:tushar.n.d...@intel.com] >> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:45 AM >> To: Kristian Kielhofner; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e >> >> >-Original Message-

Re: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e

2012-09-27 Thread Ronciak, John
27, 2012 10:45 AM > To: Kristian Kielhofner; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e > > >-Original Message- > >From: Kristian Kielhofner [mailto:k...@kriskinc.com] > >Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:46 AM

Re: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e

2012-09-27 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Dave, Tushar N wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: Kristian Kielhofner [mailto:k...@kriskinc.com] >>Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:46 AM >>To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>Subject: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues w

Re: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e

2012-09-27 Thread Dave, Tushar N
>-Original Message- >From: Kristian Kielhofner [mailto:k...@kriskinc.com] >Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:46 AM >To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e > >Hello everyone, > > We've been experiencing

[E1000-devel] 82574L issues with e1000e

2012-09-27 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
Hello everyone, We've been experiencing a slew of issues with our 82574L chips and the e1000e driver. We have several of these units in the field. We're using a vanilla kernel 2.6.27.49 with e1000e 2.1.4. Kernel and hardware supports MSI-X but changing these options (IntMode=1 and disabling MS