From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Sergei Shtylyov" <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: mpm@selenic.com, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: solution to printk() blocking interrupts?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:45:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910809220745i59a10185rffe1fdcda1916eb0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D7AE19.1020309@ru.mvista.com>
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Sergei Shtylyov
<sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> Hello, I wrote:
>
> Not sure if Stephen was the right person to CC, including Matt now...
>
>>>>> What controls this? "carrier detect appears untrustworthy, waiting 4
>>>>> seconds"
>>>>> Get that fixed and this patch could be useful,
>
>>>> Does the driver properly uses netif_carrier_on/off to signal the
>>>> system when the link is up/down ?
>
>>> Implementing the poll_controller() method in the network driver is
>>> usually
>
>>> Looks like the answer is "no"...
>
>> Hm... it uses phylib, so probably it does that. That message and a 4 s
>> pause appears if the carrier is seen in <10 ms after opening the device.
>
> Oops, not 10 -- 100 ms (HZ / 10).
>
>> Maybe this threshold needs to be changed?
>
> Seems like too much indeed.
The link is coming up, but it appears that netconsole has already
decided to wait 4s.
mpc52xx MII bus: probed
net eth0: Using PHY at MDIO address 0
netconsole: local port 6666
netconsole: local IP 192.168.1.11
netconsole: interface eth0
netconsole: remote port 514
netconsole: remote IP 192.168.1.4
netconsole: remote ethernet address 00:19:d1:e4:0f:8d
netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it
net eth0: attached phy 0 to driver Generic PHY
netconsole: carrier detect appears untrustworthy, waiting 4 seconds
PHY: f0003000:00 - Link is Up - 100/Full
console [netcon0] enabled
netconsole: network logging started
>
> WBR, Sergei
>
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-22 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-21 20:53 solution to printk() blocking interrupts? Jon Smirl
2008-09-21 21:43 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-21 22:21 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-21 23:34 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-22 5:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-22 11:04 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 11:11 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 14:39 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 14:45 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2008-09-22 14:59 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 21:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-22 10:03 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 11:01 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 11:21 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 13:45 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-23 5:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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