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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [patch sungem] improved locking
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:07:24 +1100
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On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:03 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:12:13 +1100
> 
> > David, could that be the pause stuff not working properly ?
> 
> It could be, but if the tg3 says flow control is up in the kernel logs
> things ought to be OK.

tg3 says

tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.

but sungem says

eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full-duplex.
eth0: Pause is disabled

Hrm... I suppose I need to dig more. No time to do that today though.

Ben.