From: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@realtek.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 won't transmit with 3.12
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:00:52 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140122040052.GA2310@enc.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140121233630.GA3214@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
If it helps, I know the tx_dropped is happening on line 5837 of r8169.c
rtl8169_unmap_tx_skb(&tp->pci_dev->dev, tx_skb,
tp->TxDescArray + entry);
if (skb) {
tp->dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
tx_skb->skb = NULL;
}
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:36:30AM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au> :
> [...]
> > It's a new setup so it might of never worked. It's not likely to be a
> > hardware problem as its three different devices.
>
> You may check that the onboard nic device does not even work when the
> extra PCI-e card aren't plugged.
>
> > I've sent what I think you might need for starters, but if there
> > is extra stuff you'd like to see, let me know.
>
> A complete dmesg including the XID lines that the r8169 driver prints
> would be welcome.
>
> > The problem shows up the same, the TX dropped counter increments.
> > I'm not sure why 42 packets made it out (or even if they really did)
> > Receive works fine, I can even start up wireshark and see packets
> > pass by.
> >
> > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:4c:80:66:57
> > inet addr:192.168.1.222 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> > inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fe80:6657/64 Scope:Link
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:8252 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:8029 overruns:0 carrier:0
>
> There are very few places where the r8169 driver modifies tx_dropped.
>
> Please increase the driver verbosity with the 'msglvl' option of ethtool.
>
> [...]
> > ethtool -S shows a similar story, not sure if the rx_missed counter
> > is another problem:
>
> It seems safe to ignore as long as it does not change after startup.
>
> --
> Ueimor
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-21 0:06 r8169 won't transmit with 3.12 Craig Small
2014-01-21 23:36 ` Francois Romieu
2014-01-22 0:41 ` Craig Small
2014-01-22 23:31 ` Francois Romieu
2014-01-23 7:57 ` Craig Small
2014-01-24 0:25 ` Francois Romieu
2014-01-25 0:59 ` Craig Small
2014-01-22 4:00 ` Craig Small [this message]
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