From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] sky2: tx pause bug fix Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:27:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20060922102724.777bddb5@localhost.localdomain> References: <08f701c6de22$b25420b0$0b00000a@bluereef.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:36585 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964794AbWIVR11 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:27:27 -0400 To: "Andrew Hall" In-Reply-To: <08f701c6de22$b25420b0$0b00000a@bluereef.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:40:00 +1000 "Andrew Hall" wrote: > > > > If there's anything I can do to help isolate this issue please let me > > know. > > > > Looking through the logs I'm also intermittently seeing some of this: > > sky2 eth1: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 844 That means the driver is getting receive fifo overflows. You must not be using receive flow control. The driver takes no special action when this occurs. It isn't clear (even from the documentation), what is supposed to be done. -- Stephen Hemminger