ethtool 3.5 released

ethtool 3.5 released

[Ben Hutchings]

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ethtool version 3.5 has been released.

Home page: https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/
Download link:
https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethtool-3.1.tar.gz

Release notes:

	* Feature: Display support for 1000BASE-KX and 10GBASE-KX4 link modes
	* Feature: Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) configuration
	  (--show-eee and --set-eee options)
	* Fix: Don't trust drivers to null-terminate strings
	* Feature: Display support for 40G link modes
	* Package: Update RPM summary, description and URL
	* Package: Exclude redundant documentation from RPM

Ben.

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Re: ethtool 3.5 released

[Naoto MATSUMOTO]

Dear Ben.

FYI(For Your Information)
This is Naoto MATSUMOTO, Senior Researcher, SAKURA Internet.

We tried ethtool 3.5 on 40GbE NIC(Mellanox), it's result here.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# ./ethtool --version
ethtool version 3.5

# ./ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: No
        Supports auto-negotiation: No
        Advertised link modes:  10000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: No
        Speed: 40000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: off
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: d
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x00000014 (20)
                               link ifdown
        Link detected: yes


Our 40GbE NIC Firmware/Dirver status are here.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver v1.5.8.3 (June 2012)
Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
Firmware Version: 2.10.800
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


And We were testing 10GbE(Intel) NIC and your 40GbE NIC in our lab
using ethtool with added some debug code.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# ./ethtool-p eth5 (10GbE NIC by Intel)
Settings for eth5:
        Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
        Supported link modes:   10000baseT/Full

        mask == 5120 <--- ep->support number

# ./ethtool-p eth1 (40GbE NIC by Mellanox)
Settings for eth1:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10000baseT/Full

        mask == 4224 <--- ep->support number
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

It's firmware problem I thinks. But Just Information for you ;-)

regards,
--
Naoto MATSUMOTO

On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 20:48:37 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:

> ethtool version 3.5 has been released.
> 
> Home page: https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/
> Download link:
> https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethtool-3.1.tar.gz
> 
> Release notes:
> 
> 	* Feature: Display support for 40G link modes


-- 
SAKURA Internet Inc. / Senior Researcher
Naoto MATSUMOTO <n-matsumoto@sakura.ad.jp>
SAKURA Research Center <http://research.sakura.ad.jp/>

Re: ethtool 3.5 released

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:27 +0900, Naoto MATSUMOTO wrote:
> Dear Ben.
> 
> FYI(For Your Information)
> This is Naoto MATSUMOTO, Senior Researcher, SAKURA Internet.
> 
> We tried ethtool 3.5 on 40GbE NIC(Mellanox), it's result here.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # ./ethtool --version
> ethtool version 3.5
> 
> # ./ethtool eth1
> Settings for eth1:
>         Supported ports: [ TP ]
>         Supported link modes:   10000baseT/Full
>         Supported pause frame use: No
>         Supports auto-negotiation: No
>         Advertised link modes:  10000baseT/Full
>         Advertised pause frame use: No
>         Advertised auto-negotiation: No
>         Speed: 40000Mb/s
>         Duplex: Full
>         Port: Twisted Pair

40G twisted-pair, eh?

>         PHYAD: 0
>         Transceiver: internal
>         Auto-negotiation: off
>         MDI-X: Unknown
>         Supports Wake-on: d
>         Wake-on: d
>         Current message level: 0x00000014 (20)
>                                link ifdown
>         Link detected: yes
> 
> 
> Our 40GbE NIC Firmware/Dirver status are here.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver v1.5.8.3 (June 2012)
> Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
> Firmware Version: 2.10.800
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> And We were testing 10GbE(Intel) NIC and your 40GbE NIC in our lab
> using ethtool with added some debug code.

I work for Solarflare, not Mellanox... and the patch adding 40G link
modes came from Parav Pandit at Emulex.

[...]
> It's firmware problem I thinks. But Just Information for you ;-)

Also, the 40G link mode flags were only just defined, so the driver
probably has yet to be updated.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

Re[2]: ethtool 3.5 released

[Naoto MATSUMOTO]

Hi, Ben. Thanks your reply for me.

On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 17:41:23 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:

> >         Port: Twisted Pair
> 
> 40G twisted-pair, eh?

We are using this one(cable). 
http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=cables

> >         PHYAD: 0
> >         Transceiver: internal
> >         Auto-negotiation: off
> >         MDI-X: Unknown
> >         Supports Wake-on: d
> >         Wake-on: d
> >         Current message level: 0x00000014 (20)
> >                                link ifdown
> >         Link detected: yes
> > 
> > 
> > Our 40GbE NIC Firmware/Dirver status are here.
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver v1.5.8.3 (June 2012)
> > Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
> > Firmware Version: 2.10.800
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > And We were testing 10GbE(Intel) NIC and your 40GbE NIC in our lab
> > using ethtool with added some debug code.
> 
> I work for Solarflare, not Mellanox... and the patch adding 40G link
> modes came from Parav Pandit at Emulex.
> 
> [...]
> > It's firmware problem I thinks. But Just Information for you ;-)
> 
> Also, the 40G link mode flags were only just defined, so the driver
> probably has yet to be updated.
> 
> Ben.

I agree with you. and we'll wait for the MLX_GUY works ;-)

-- 
SAKURA Internet Inc. / Senior Researcher
Naoto MATSUMOTO <n-matsumoto@sakura.ad.jp>
SAKURA Research Center <http://research.sakura.ad.jp/>