From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [e1000]: flow control on by default - good idea really? Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:28:03 -0400 Message-ID: <1152275283.5341.144.camel@jzny2> References: <44AC05A8.9030503@intel.com> <1152191018.5103.48.camel@jzny2> <20060706.235909.78729229.davem@davemloft.net> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, john.ronciak@intel.com, greearb@candelatech.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, olel@ans.pl Return-path: Received: from mx02.cybersurf.com ([209.197.145.105]:3543 "EHLO mx02.cybersurf.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932110AbWGGM2J (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:28:09 -0400 Received: from mail.cyberus.ca ([209.197.145.21]) by mx02.cybersurf.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FypRL-0002U3-RA for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:28:11 -0400 To: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20060706.235909.78729229.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-06-07 at 23:59 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > It's autonegotiated, check you kernel message logs when the link > came up, you'll see this: > > tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX. > yikes - yes, this would be it. I could be wrong and i will double check: I think when the e1000 says via ethtool "rx is on" - it means that it is _advertising_ flow control as opposed to detecting partner has flow control capability. Auke, can you also check this as well? cheers, jamal