2008-10-09 15:08:28

by Alex Howells

Subject: r8169 counters, Intel Atom 230 (D945GCLF)

Afternoon,

We ran into a lot of issues with the Intel Atom (D945GCLF) boards
shortly after they were released, particularly to do with network
booting the systems with x86_64 kernel via PXE and TFTP.

These seem to be fixed very nicely in the latest 2.6.27-rc kernels!

However I've just spotted an odd issue:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1C:C0:5F:DC:02
inet addr:89.16.177.251 Bcast:89.16.177.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:c0ff:fe5f:dc02/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:25218 errors:0 dropped:2758040992 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:23301 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:18615148 (17.7 Mb) TX bytes:3597444 (3.4 Mb)
Interrupt:124

That box was literally just booted about 30 seconds previously, and
whilst the RX packets/bytes looks believable the 'dropped' counter is
totally out of this world.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Alex

2008-10-09 18:58:23

by Francois Romieu

Subject: Re: r8169 counters, Intel Atom 230 (D945GCLF)

Alex Howells <[email protected]> :
[...]
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1C:C0:5F:DC:02
> inet addr:89.16.177.251 Bcast:89.16.177.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::21c:c0ff:fe5f:dc02/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:25218 errors:0 dropped:2758040992 overruns:0 frame:0
^^^^^^^^^^
[...]
> Any ideas?

It is fixed by patch #0009 at:

http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.27-rc9/20081007/

--
Ueimor

2008-10-09 19:30:51

by Alex Howells

Subject: Re: r8169 counters, Intel Atom 230 (D945GCLF)

Francois Romieu wrote:
> It is fixed by patch #0009 at:
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.27-rc9/20081007/

Confirmed fixed. Thanks very much Francois.