From: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
To: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cxgb4 mbox4 errors listening to multiple multicast addresses
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:57:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120510205749.GB4709@BohrerMBP.rgmadvisors.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FAC2941.5080301@chelsio.com>
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 01:46:57PM -0700, Dimitris Michailidis wrote:
> On 05/10/2012 01:14 PM, Shawn Bohrer wrote:
> >Is there any translation of those cryptic mbox 4 errors?
>
> The mbox messages are dumps of mailbox commands that try to register
> MAC addresses and fail due to exhaustion of exact MAC filters. It
> should fall back to ALL_MULTI mode and probably shouldn't be logging
> these as they are expected failure. From your description it would
> appear it didn't fall back, I'll take a closer look. Can you send
> me the output of ifconfig or ip link for the port in this state?
$ ifconfig eth6
eth6 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:43:10:52:B0
inet6 addr: fe80::207:43ff:fe10:52b0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7811818 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9087 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1171756876 (1.0 GiB) TX bytes:608182 (593.9 KiB)
Interrupt:38
$ ifconfig vlan824
vlan824 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:43:10:52:B0
inet addr:10.8.24.40 Bcast:10.8.31.255 Mask:255.255.248.0
inet6 addr: fe80::207:43ff:fe10:52b0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7811450 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8895 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:999858056 (953.5 MiB) TX bytes:409410 (399.8 KiB)
$ ip link show eth6
6: eth6: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 00:07:43:10:52:b0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
$ ip link show vlan824
11: vlan824@eth6: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP
link/ether 00:07:43:10:52:b0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
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Shawn
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2012-05-10 20:14 cxgb4 mbox4 errors listening to multiple multicast addresses Shawn Bohrer
2012-05-10 20:46 ` Dimitris Michailidis
2012-05-10 20:57 ` Shawn Bohrer [this message]
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