[Intel-wired-lan] [BUG] igb: reconnecting of cable not always detected

[Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>]

Hi Alex,

(Sent a 2nd time, this time with "Reply to all" and without HTML, so
that it hits the kernel archives as well. Sorry for the noise.




> Sounds like the link is failing to re-establish. You might double
> check a few things. One is to verify if the link partner is
> recognizing the link as coming up or not.

It turns on differently. Before I remove the cable, the LED on the TP
LINK "TL SG-108" was green. After removing the cable, the LED went off.
After reinserting the cable, it became orange after some while.

Green LED means 1000 MB/s, orange LED means 10/100 MB/s.


I have a different, even older switch: "Allnet ALL8039". Here the same:
the switch detects a link, but igb not.



> If you could also provide an "lspci -vvv"

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 03)
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
        Region 0: Memory at 90600000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Region 2: I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
        Region 3: Memory@90680000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
                Masking: 00000000  Pending: 00000000
        Capabilities: [70] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=5 Masked-
                Vector table: BAR=3 offset=00000000
                PBA: BAR=3 offset=00002000
        Capabilities: [a0] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 512 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s
<512ns, L1 <64us
                        ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset+
SlotPowerLimit 0.000W
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable+ Non-Fatal+ Fatal+
Unsupported+
                        RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
FLReset-
                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr+
TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit
Latency L0s <2us, L1 <16us
                        ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp+
                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+
DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
                DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range ABCD, TimeoutDis+, LTR-,
OBFF Not Supported
                DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis+,
LTR-, OBFF Disabled
                LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance-
SpeedDis-
                         Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range,
EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
                         Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
                LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB,
EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1-
                         EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-,
LinkEqualizationRequest-
        Capabilities: [100 v2] Advanced Error Reporting
                UESta:  DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt-
RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                UEMsk:  DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt-
RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt-
RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                CESta:  RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout-
NonFatalErr-
                CEMsk:  RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout-
NonFatalErr+
                AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+
ChkEn-
        Capabilities: [140 v1] Device Serial Number 00-13-95-ff-ff-1a-54-33
        Capabilities: [1a0 v1] Transaction Processing Hints
                Device specific mode supported
                Steering table in TPH capability structure
        Kernel driver in use: igb
        Kernel modules: igb

> and "ethtool -i" for the

driver: igb
version: 5.4.0-k
firmware-version: 3.20, 0x80000553
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:02:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes



One thing that is interesting is how igb reacts to ethtool inquiries
once it goes into the failed state. You inquired for "ethtool -i eth0",
but in the failed state I only get this:

Cannot restart autonegotiation: No such device

But eth0 is of course still there, "ip -d link show eth0" shows:


2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN
mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:13:95:1a:54:33 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
    numtxqueues 8 numrxqueues 8 gso_max_size 65536 gso_max_segs 65535





Other ethtool commands also don't report any information once the link
went bogus. Here one output from "ethtool eth0":

Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: Symmetric
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 1
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        MDI-X: off (auto)
        Supports Wake-on: pumbg
        Wake-on: g
        Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
                               drv probe link
        Link detected: yes

... and here another:

Settings for eth0:
Cannot get device settings: No such device
Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: No such device
Cannot get message level: No such device
Cannot get link status: No such device
Settings for eth0:
No data available



I'm willing to pepper the source with printk, if this helps :-)


Greetings,
Holger