Re: [Intel-wired-lan] regression in ixgbe SFP detection patch

2015-11-12 Thread William Dauchy
On Nov11 22:13, Rustad, Mark D wrote: > Just so you know, there are patches in queue that will improve this situation > in two ways: > 1) When the I2C probe times out, the code assumes that the cage is empty and > does not retry the access until the next probe. > 2) The driver will use its own pr

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] regression in ixgbe SFP detection patch

2015-11-11 Thread Rustad, Mark D
William, Emil S wrote: >> It also fixes my issue: even if eth{2,3} are still up with no carrier, I >> don't have any kworker in D state. > > It appears that you have 2 ports with empty cages. If that is the case there > is no reason to keep the interfaces up. If you bring them down, or plug the

Re: regression in ixgbe SFP detection patch

2015-11-11 Thread Alexander Duyck
On 11/11/2015 01:34 PM, William Dauchy wrote: On Nov11 20:33, Tantilov, Emil S wrote: If the diff above is the patch you are referring to then you will break the SFP+ detection in the case where the driver was loaded while there were no SFP+ modules present in the cages. understood, I was surpr

Re: regression in ixgbe SFP detection patch

2015-11-11 Thread William Dauchy
On Nov11 20:33, Tantilov, Emil S wrote: > If the diff above is the patch you are referring to then you will break the > SFP+ detection in the case where the driver was loaded while there were no > SFP+ modules present in the cages. understood, I was surprised of the modification of behavior. --

RE: regression in ixgbe SFP detection patch

2015-11-11 Thread Tantilov, Emil S
>-Original Message- >From: William Dauchy [mailto:will...@gandi.net] >Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 9:35 AM >To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Tantilov, Emil S >Cc: da...@davemloft.net; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Schmitt, Phillip J; intel- >wired-...@lists.osuosl.org >Subject

regression in ixgbe SFP detection patch

2015-11-11 Thread William Dauchy
Hello, I upgraded a machine from 3.14.x to v4.1.x and noted that I now have two kworker very often on D state, just after boot while I am not doing anything special. This issue remains indefinitely. This machine has four network interfaces: 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 G