I was asked to look into this because it looks like a hardware issue, and I 
usually don't handle issues on the public mailing list. I think what we would 
officially do in this case is to have this escalated through GE because we 
really need to reproduce the issue before we can look into it more carefully.

I'd also like to take it off-list because Outlook means I top-post for 
convenience, and threading is so broken I prefer not having the email thread 
trimmed. I know both of those things get you chastised on most mailing lists.

Thanks.

Todd Fujinaka
Technical Marketing Engineer
LAN Access Division (LAD)
Intel Corporation
[email protected]
(503) 712-4565


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Friesen [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 3:20 PM
To: Fujinaka, Todd
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] strangeness in LINKS register...any ideas what's 
going on?

On 09/13/2010 03:41 PM, Fujinaka, Todd wrote:

> I'm trying to find out if we see the same sort of failure signature,
> but it would be good to know more about your test. If you are running
> a series of short-lived connections (such as an http test) you should
> just use the latest driver (I can go into that later). Otherwise,
> we'll need to see your dmesg, dumps from ethregs before and after the
> hang, information about your hardware (is it custom, did we do a
> design review), etc.

The test case in question is telecom gateway controller application with
primarily UDP traffic, some SCTP, some tcp (maybe 600-1000 active tcp
connections at any given time, each of which is up for 50sec or so).
Can you elaborate on the issues with short-lived connections?

The hardware is the A10200 ATCA blade from GE.  No idea if they had you
do a design review.

We saw the problems running at 10G over the XAUI link but I'm currently
testing it at 1G to see if that improves reliability.

> All of this might be better done through factory support, if you have
> it.

I think we probably have access to someone.  I can pursue it through
those channels if that's preferred.

Thanks,

Chris

-- 
Chris Friesen
Software Developer
GENBAND
[email protected]
www.genband.com

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