Re: [PATCH] sky2: flow control off

2007-02-06 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:18:07 -0500 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Turn flow control off for sky2. When flow control is on, the transmitter > > may get randomly stuck. Perhaps there is hardware problem, but until > > Marvell provides errata information for wor

Re: [PATCH] sky2: flow control off

2007-02-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stephen Hemminger wrote: Turn flow control off for sky2. When flow control is on, the transmitter may get randomly stuck. Perhaps there is hardware problem, but until Marvell provides errata information for workaround, it should default to off. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] sky2: flow control off

2007-02-05 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Stephen, First, thanks for this detailed explanation. On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:22:53AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Here is what I saw. > > The transmitter on the Marvell Yukon II (88e8053) hangs when doing transmit > flow > control under load. There appears to be a bug or race condi

Re: [PATCH] sky2: flow control off

2007-02-05 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Here is what I saw. The transmitter on the Marvell Yukon II (88e8053) hangs when doing transmit flow control under load. There appears to be a bug or race condition that causes the MAC to stop transmitting data. There are two drivers for the Yukon II device on Linux. SysKonnect/Marvell has one

Re: [PATCH] sky2: flow control off

2007-02-03 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Stephen, On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:34:25PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Turn flow control off for sky2. When flow control is on, the transmitter > may get randomly stuck. Perhaps there is hardware problem, but until > Marvell provides errata information for workaround, it should default t

[PATCH] sky2: flow control off

2007-02-02 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Turn flow control off for sky2. When flow control is on, the transmitter may get randomly stuck. Perhaps there is hardware problem, but until Marvell provides errata information for workaround, it should default to off. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/sky2.c |