tg3 link not detected on first interface up with mtu change
From: Jeff Raubitschek <hidden>
Date: 2004-03-05 12:10:26
using the tg3 (v2.8) driver on 2.4.26-pre1, with dual port NetXtreme BCM5704 (rev 03), if you configure the interfaces with the a non default mtu, link will not be detected (no gigE switch required to reproduce, 100 Mbps switch will produce the same problem) some observations: - if you bring the interface down and bring it up again, link will be detected. - on some machines when bringing up both interfaces at the same time, one of the dual interfaces will detect link while the other will not - if you bring up the interface with the default mtu, then immediately change the mtu using ifconfig, link will not be detected - if you bring up the interface with the default mtu, then wait 2 seconds before changing the mtu using ifconfig, link WILL be detected - the broadcom driver bcm5700.o driver detects link correctly in this case. Reproduce with these steps: insmod tg3 ifconfig eth1 10.9.0.98 mtu 1000 # wait a bit and check link with: ethtool eth1 (it will be "no") dmesg output: tg3.c:v2.8 (February 23, 2004) PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:09.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0b.0 eth1: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704CA40-I) rev 2003 PHY(5704)] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:10:18:06:d4:88 PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:09.0 eth2: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704CA40-I) rev 2003 PHY(5704)] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:10:18:06:d4:89 please let me know if i can provide more information, i will continue to dig through the driver trying to understand where the timing condition with tg3_change_mtu might be. -jeff