Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-31 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 09:32:49PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: On 14-01-30 06:26 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 05:20:40PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: On 14-01-30 04:41 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: Mark and David, can you pull the 3.13-td-changes-reverted branch again, and see if the

RE: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-30 Thread David Laight
From: Sarah Sharp Current issue is when plugging in the ax88179 there is lag when bringing the interface up and a bunch of kernel messages: With which kernel? I saw similar issues testing some patches yesterday. Both with the ax179_178a and smsx95xx cards (connected to xhci). My kernel

RE: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-30 Thread David Laight
From: Sarah Sharp On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:30:51PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: On 14-01-28 03:30 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: .. Can you please pull this branch, which contains a 3.13 kernel with David's patch reverted, and test whether your USB ethernet device works or fails? Fails.

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-30 Thread renevant
When using the ax88179 connected via the via based card the whole system gets brought down after a while i got this my system log. I'm going to take a break and see if I can narrow anything more down tomorrow. This log is in reverse because of the wonderful way journalctl works. I suppose I

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-30 Thread renevant
via vl800 pcie card kernel parameter iommu=pt ethtool -K xxx sg off ifconfig xxx mtu 4060 up stable so far, it's way past the point that it usually crashes. i'll do proper testing tomorrow iommu=pt bah ! Regards, Will Trives On Thursday 30 January 2014 21:46:27 renev...@internode.on.net

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-30 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 09:44:53AM +, David Laight wrote: From: Sarah Sharp Current issue is when plugging in the ax88179 there is lag when bringing the interface up and a bunch of kernel messages: [ 79.481028] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp7s0u1: link is not ready [

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-30 Thread Mark Lord
On 14-01-30 01:44 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: .. Since the USB ethernet scatter-gather support wasn't added until the 3.12 kernel, it's unlikely that the xHCI TD fragment issue is actually the root cause. The interesting piece of information in that report is that when the USB 3.0 device falls

RE: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-30 Thread Paul Zimmerman
: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 09:44:53AM +, David Laight wrote: From: Sarah Sharp Current issue is when plugging in the ax88179 there is lag when bringing the interface up and a bunch of kernel messages: [ 79.481028] IPv6

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-30 Thread Mark Lord
On 14-01-30 02:54 PM, Paul Zimmerman wrote: Can you give a pointer to where we could buy one of these devices? I would like to test this with our (Synopsys) xHCI controller as well. newegg.com, item N82E16817659005 -- Mark Lord Real-Time Remedies Inc. ml...@pobox.com -- To unsubscribe from

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-30 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 03:00:47PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: On 14-01-30 02:54 PM, Paul Zimmerman wrote: Can you give a pointer to where we could buy one of these devices? I would like to test this with our (Synopsys) xHCI controller as well. newegg.com, item N82E16817659005 Ah, so

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-30 Thread Mark Lord
On 14-01-30 04:41 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: Mark and David, can you pull the 3.13-td-changes-reverted branch again, and see if the latest patch fixes your issue? It disables scatter gather for the ax88179_178a device, but only when it's operating at USB 3.0 speeds. As expected, this works just

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-30 Thread Mark Lord
On 14-01-30 06:26 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 05:20:40PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: On 14-01-30 04:41 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: Mark and David, can you pull the 3.13-td-changes-reverted branch again, and see if the latest patch fixes your issue? It disables scatter gather for

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-29 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:30:51PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: On 14-01-28 03:30 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: .. Can you please pull this branch, which contains a 3.13 kernel with David's patch reverted, and test whether your USB ethernet device works or fails? Fails. dmesg log attached. It's

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-29 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 04:21:00PM +1100, renev...@internode.on.net wrote: Hello, I am someone who has been struggling to get an ax88179 net adapter working reliably. I have an integrated Asmedia 1042 xhci controller that is reportedly version 0.96 on an ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0, BIOS 2201

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-29 Thread renevant
I just tried with 3.12.9 and got the errors. I'll keep going back. It doesn't look like the nic is faulty, i'm using it right now plugged into a usb 2.0 port. [ 303.418028] usb 5-5: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci [ 303.548948] usb 5-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0b95,

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-29 Thread Sarah Sharp
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:13:53AM +1100, renev...@internode.on.net wrote: I just tried with 3.12.9 and got the errors. I'll keep going back. But which version of 3.12 worked? Just 3.12? Sarah Sharp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-usb in the body of a message

Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-28 Thread Sarah Sharp
Hi Mark, You reported that you had an issue with a USB ethernet device on 3.12, and that updating to 3.13-rc4 (which included commit 587194873820 xhci: convert TRB_CYCLE to le32 before using it to set Link TRB's cycle bit) fixed the issue for you. Later you said applying that patch on top of

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-28 Thread Mark Lord
On 14-01-28 03:30 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: .. Can you please pull this branch, which contains a 3.13 kernel with David's patch reverted, and test whether your USB ethernet device works or fails? Fails. dmesg log attached. All I do is something akin to this: mount /server/ /x mount --bind

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-28 Thread Mark Lord
On 14-01-28 11:30 PM, Mark Lord wrote: On 14-01-28 03:30 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: .. Can you please pull this branch, which contains a 3.13 kernel with David's patch reverted, and test whether your USB ethernet device works or fails? Fails. dmesg log attached. All I do is something akin to

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-28 Thread renevant
Hello, I am someone who has been struggling to get an ax88179 net adapter working reliably. I have an integrated Asmedia 1042 xhci controller that is reportedly version 0.96 on an ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0, BIOS 2201 motherboard based on the AMD 990FX chipset. The big issue I am currently

Re: Help testing for USB ethernet/xHCI regression

2014-01-28 Thread renevant
just to add I have a vantec 2 bay usb 3.0 disk dock that has appeared to always work fine connected to the asmedia 1042 with version 3.13 and with 3.14 (with the writeq reversion and transciever fix) On Wednesday 29 January 2014 16:21:00 you wrote: Hello, I am someone who has been