Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:37:06 -0800 From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk>, "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Jack F Vogel <jfv@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Intel XL710 broken link down detection? Message-ID: <CAFOYbcn-aL7Yus1uHVgjTeQqWr4VDELPAPq1qaWMBQ=Biw=d6g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFMmRNwuc4N%2B6TSCFuknbfYZnMzXuuunFbyeGfyaOzYWxgWfaA@mail.gmail.com> References: <564357E0.1050002@freebsd.org> <56436A5F.4020102@multiplay.co.uk> <CAFMmRNwuc4N%2B6TSCFuknbfYZnMzXuuunFbyeGfyaOzYWxgWfaA@mail.gmail.com>
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LOL, Damn, what's the world coming to when you can't trust them Linux guys :) Jack On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk> > wrote: > >> Comparing this to the Linux driver which does detect the link down I've >> discovered it actually polls the link status by default in its watchdog. >> >> Disabling this with "ethtool --set-priv-flags eth1 LinkPolling off" and >> the Linux driver also fails to detect link down. >> >> So this seems like a firmware or even hardware bug where it should be >> reporting down events and the Linux driver has been updated to workaround >> the problem? > > > No, apparently the Linux devs just didn't read the datasheet closely > enough (and presumably the FreeBSD driver copied the mistake). There is a > mask of interrupt causes that works backwards from how one would expect; > you mask out events that you *don't* want rather than events that you do > want. Both the Linux and FreeBSD drivers pass a mask of events that they > want interrupts for (the only reason why it appears to work on link up is > that the the AN Completed event fires when link is up, as far as I can > tell). Try the following patch: > > https://people.freebsd.org/~rstone/patches/ixl_link_int.diff > >
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