ethtool 3.5 released

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ethtool 3.5 released

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-03 19:48:46

ethtool version 3.5 has been released.

Home page: https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/
Download link:
https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethtool-3.1.tar.gz

Release notes:

	* Feature: Display support for 1000BASE-KX and 10GBASE-KX4 link modes
	* Feature: Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) configuration
	  (--show-eee and --set-eee options)
	* Fix: Don't trust drivers to null-terminate strings
	* Feature: Display support for 40G link modes
	* Package: Update RPM summary, description and URL
	* Package: Exclude redundant documentation from RPM

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

Re: ethtool 3.5 released

From: Naoto MATSUMOTO <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-06 01:33:27

Dear Ben.

FYI(For Your Information)
This is Naoto MATSUMOTO, Senior Researcher, SAKURA Internet.

We tried ethtool 3.5 on 40GbE NIC(Mellanox), it's result here.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# ./ethtool --version
ethtool version 3.5

# ./ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: No
        Supports auto-negotiation: No
        Advertised link modes:  10000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: No
        Speed: 40000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: off
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: d
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x00000014 (20)
                               link ifdown
        Link detected: yes


Our 40GbE NIC Firmware/Dirver status are here.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver v1.5.8.3 (June 2012)
Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
Firmware Version: 2.10.800
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


And We were testing 10GbE(Intel) NIC and your 40GbE NIC in our lab
using ethtool with added some debug code.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# ./ethtool-p eth5 (10GbE NIC by Intel)
Settings for eth5:
        Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
        Supported link modes:   10000baseT/Full

        mask == 5120 <--- ep->support number

# ./ethtool-p eth1 (40GbE NIC by Mellanox)
Settings for eth1:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10000baseT/Full

        mask == 4224 <--- ep->support number
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

It's firmware problem I thinks. But Just Information for you ;-)

regards,
--
Naoto MATSUMOTO

On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 20:48:37 +0100
Ben Hutchings [off-list ref] wrote:
ethtool version 3.5 has been released.

Home page: https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/
Download link:
https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ethtool-3.1.tar.gz

Release notes:

	* Feature: Display support for 40G link modes

-- 
SAKURA Internet Inc. / Senior Researcher
Naoto MATSUMOTO [off-list ref]
SAKURA Research Center <http://research.sakura.ad.jp/>

Re: ethtool 3.5 released

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-06 16:41:27

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:27 +0900, Naoto MATSUMOTO wrote:
Dear Ben.

FYI(For Your Information)
This is Naoto MATSUMOTO, Senior Researcher, SAKURA Internet.

We tried ethtool 3.5 on 40GbE NIC(Mellanox), it's result here.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# ./ethtool --version
ethtool version 3.5

# ./ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: No
        Supports auto-negotiation: No
        Advertised link modes:  10000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: No
        Speed: 40000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
40G twisted-pair, eh?
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: off
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: d
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x00000014 (20)
                               link ifdown
        Link detected: yes


Our 40GbE NIC Firmware/Dirver status are here.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver v1.5.8.3 (June 2012)
Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
Firmware Version: 2.10.800
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


And We were testing 10GbE(Intel) NIC and your 40GbE NIC in our lab
using ethtool with added some debug code.
I work for Solarflare, not Mellanox... and the patch adding 40G link
modes came from Parav Pandit at Emulex.

[...]
It's firmware problem I thinks. But Just Information for you ;-)
Also, the 40G link mode flags were only just defined, so the driver
probably has yet to be updated.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

Re[2]: ethtool 3.5 released

From: Naoto MATSUMOTO <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-07 01:36:23

Hi, Ben. Thanks your reply for me.

On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 17:41:23 +0100
Ben Hutchings [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
        Port: Twisted Pair
40G twisted-pair, eh?
We are using this one(cable). 
http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=cables
quoted
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: off
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: d
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x00000014 (20)
                               link ifdown
        Link detected: yes


Our 40GbE NIC Firmware/Dirver status are here.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver v1.5.8.3 (June 2012)
Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
Firmware Version: 2.10.800
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


And We were testing 10GbE(Intel) NIC and your 40GbE NIC in our lab
using ethtool with added some debug code.
I work for Solarflare, not Mellanox... and the patch adding 40G link
modes came from Parav Pandit at Emulex.

[...]
quoted
It's firmware problem I thinks. But Just Information for you ;-)
Also, the 40G link mode flags were only just defined, so the driver
probably has yet to be updated.

Ben.
I agree with you. and we'll wait for the MLX_GUY works ;-)

-- 
SAKURA Internet Inc. / Senior Researcher
Naoto MATSUMOTO [off-list ref]
SAKURA Research Center <http://research.sakura.ad.jp/>
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