On 13.12.2018 6:52, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Did you disable ethernet flow control? Ethernet flow control is
usually a bad idea, it can cause head of line blocking. Unfortunately,
most devices default to on.
Disable ethernet flow control from where? The rtl8169 driver does not
support changing the ethernet flow control settings. My switches are
also unmanaged.
ethtool -a eth0
Pause parameters for eth0:
Cannot get device pause settings: Operation not supported
According to the rtl8169 datasheet (rev 1.21 - from 2002):
"The RTL8169 enters backoff state for the specified period of time when
it receives a valid PAUSE packet (with pause_time=n) in full duplex
mode. If the PAUSE packet is received while the RTL8169 is transmitting,
the RTL8169 starts to backoff after the current transmission is
completed. The RTL8169 is free to transmit packets when it receives a
valid PAUSE packet (with pause_time=0000h) or the backoff timer(=n*512
bit time) elapses."
So the transmit FIFO stalling should not be caused by this... It should
automatically resume...
Also I have not seen any PAUSE frames in my traffic captures.
One suspicious thing is in the datasheet:
Interrupt Status Register Bit3: "Transmit (Tx) Error: This bit set to 1
indicates that a packet transmission was aborted, due to excessive
collisions, according to the TXRR's setting in the TCR register."
However in the TCR register definition there is nothing about "TXRR".
I could not find more recent datasheet... Could anyone provide me with
one or where it could be obtained?
BR.
Risto
