interface down, console output: igb3: TX(7) desc avail = 41, pidx = 308

[Ben Woods]

On 2 April 2017 at 16:04, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling at kev009.com> wrote:

> Sean Bruno committed a couple fixes to the watchdog code this week that
> should at least allow for a usable TSO although the frequency of the
> watchdog events is still cause for concern.  It seems some timeouts are
> part of Intel's expectations during normal operations for several chipsets.
>
> If you could share which exact NIC chipset you have I will check the
> datasheets and see if we're missing anything.
>
>

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the reply. More details about my chipset below.

$ dmesg | grep igb3
igb3: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Network Driver> port 0x3020-0x303f mem
0xdfec0000-0xdfedffff,0xdff28000-0xdff2bfff irq 19 at device 20.1 on pci0
igb3: attach_pre capping queues at 8
igb3: using 1024 tx descriptors and 1024 rx descriptors
igb3: msix_init qsets capped at 8
igb3: pxm cpus: 8 queue msgs: 9 admincnt: 1
igb3: using 8 rx queues 8 tx queues
igb3: Using MSIX interrupts with 9 vectors
igb3: allocated for 8 tx_queues
igb3: allocated for 8 rx_queues
igb3: Ethernet address: 00:08:a2:09:3c:75
igb3: netmap queues/slots: TX 8/1024, RX 8/1024
igb3: promiscuous mode enabled
igb3: link state changed to UP


$ pciconf -lvv | grep igb3 -A4
igb3 at pci0:0:20:1:       class=0x020000 card=0x1f418086 chip=0x1f418086
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Ethernet Connection I354'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

Regards,
Ben

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From: Benjamin Woods
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