Re: sky2 rx length errors

Willy Tarreau
2009-09-20T18:54:24Z

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 08:46:59PM +0200, Grozdan wrote:
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> Thanks Willy :)
>
> What I'm still wondering a bit though is the fact that I've never seen
> it behave like that for the past 3 years I've been using it. Only
> recently, with upgrading my kernel to 2.6.30 and later on to 2.6.31
> (self-compiled, sources taken from the openSUSE build service) it
> started to behave like that. In the past I also used older kernels (of
> course) like 2.6.27.x and 2.6.29 and never encountered this. So I'm a
> bit uncertain as to whether it's actually something in the kernel that
> makes it behave like that or that there's a HW problem that suddenly
> occurred or got exposed...

Unless you changed the switch port it is connected to, I agree this
sounds strange. I have also wondered if those issues could be caused
by temperature rising on the chip. I don't know if any recent change
could cause such environmental differences to occur :-/

Regards,
Willy