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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru•mvista.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail•com>
Cc: mpm@selenic•com, shemminger@linux-foundation•org,
	linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: solution to printk() blocking interrupts?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:59:00 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D7B2B4.6020900@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910809220745i59a10185rffe1fdcda1916eb0@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Smirl wrote:

>> Not sure if Stephen was the right person to CC, including Matt now...

>>>>>>What controls this? "carrier detect appears untrustworthy, waiting 4
>>>>>>seconds"
>>>>>>Get that fixed and this patch could be useful,

>>>>>Does the driver properly uses netif_carrier_on/off to signal the
>>>>>system when the link is up/down ?

>>>> Implementing the poll_controller() method in the network driver is
>>>>usually

>>>> Looks like the answer is "no"...

>>> Hm... it uses phylib, so probably it does that. That message and a 4 s
>>>pause appears if the carrier is seen in <10 ms after opening the device.

>>  Oops, not 10 -- 100 ms (HZ / 10).

>>>Maybe this threshold needs to be changed?

>>  Seems like too much indeed.

> The link is coming up, but it appears that netconsole has already
> decided to wait 4s.
> mpc52xx MII bus: probed
> net eth0: Using PHY at MDIO address 0
> netconsole: local port 6666
> netconsole: local IP 192.168.1.11
> netconsole: interface eth0
> netconsole: remote port 514
> netconsole: remote IP 192.168.1.4
> netconsole: remote ethernet address 00:19:d1:e4:0f:8d
> netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it
> net eth0: attached phy 0 to driver Generic PHY
> netconsole: carrier detect appears untrustworthy, waiting 4 seconds

    Netpoll code decides to wait 4 secs after seeing that carrier is OK before 
100 ms passed...

> PHY: f0003000:00 - Link is Up - 100/Full

    ...but it's only reported to be OK later. So indeed, the carrier reported 
by the driver appears untrustworthy. ;-)

WBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-22 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-21 20:53 solution to printk() blocking interrupts? Jon Smirl
2008-09-21 21:43 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-21 22:21   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-21 23:34     ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-22  5:17       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-22 11:04         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 11:11           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 14:39             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 14:45               ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-22 14:59                 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2008-09-22 21:27             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-22 10:03       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 11:01         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 11:21   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22 13:45     ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-23  5:46       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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