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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Scott Coulter <scott.coulter@cyclone.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Gianfar tx-babbling-errors
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:03:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F122E3A2-3054-4BC9-9C06-0ADE590A8AFC@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43EB80E07C42E1408726E4905FB96B04C0769D@CYBORG3.cyclone.com>


On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Scott Coulter wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> As a simple stress test for my board with an MPC8572E and an  
> MPC8568E on
> it, I setup both processors to boot linux 2.6.27.6 with an NFS root  
> and
> then perform repeated native compiles of a linux kernel over NFS.   
> After
> running for 4 days straight or so with between 250-300 build cycles  
> per
> processor, I stopped the builds and ran ethtool to look for any odd
> statistics.  Both processors reported non-zero values for
> tx-babbling-errors.  Both processors reported around 1300
> tx-babbling-errors out of about 80,000,000 Tx packets.  Should I be
> concerned about the tx-babbling-errors?  What conditions would cause
> these errors to be reported?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott

I'm told this will occur when:

Transmitted frame > MAXFRM and MACCFG2[Huge En] = 0.

- k

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-18 16:16 Gianfar tx-babbling-errors Scott Coulter
2009-02-18 17:03 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2009-02-18 17:22   ` Scott Coulter
2009-02-18 17:29     ` Kumar Gala
2009-02-18 20:45       ` Scott Coulter
2009-02-19 16:17       ` Scott Coulter
2009-02-19 16:29         ` Kumar Gala
2009-02-19 16:38           ` Scott Coulter
2009-02-19 16:48         ` sjoyeau
2009-02-19 17:03           ` Kumar Gala
2009-02-19 17:29             ` Scott Coulter
2009-02-20 19:16 ` Haruki Dai-R35557
2009-02-20 20:59   ` Scott Coulter
2009-02-20 21:32     ` Haruki Dai-R35557
2009-02-24 16:58       ` Scott Coulter
2009-03-03 16:33       ` Scott Coulter

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