HI all,

The RXBOE is basically a warning, indicating that for some reason the SPI host is not fast enough in retrieving frames from the device.
In my experience, this is typically caused by excessive latency of the SPI driver, or if you have an unoptimized network driver for the MACPHY.

And no, you would certainly NOT drop a frame that is transferred over the SPI bus. It is the frame at the ingress of the device that will be dropped (ie the one at the end of the queue, not the beginning)..
Just my 0.2cent

Thanks,
Piergiorgio

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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 05/12] net: ethernet: oa_tc6: implement error interrupts unmasking

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[  285.482275] LAN865X Rev.B0 Internal Phy spi0.0:00: attached PHY 
driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=spi0.0:00, irq=POLL) [  285.534760] lan865x 
spi0.0 eth1: Link is Up - 10Mbps/Half - flow control off [  
341.466221] eth1: Receive buffer overflow error [  345.730222] eth1: 
Receive buffer overflow error [  345.891126] eth1: Receive buffer 
overflow error [  346.074220] eth1: Receive buffer overflow error

Generally we only log real errors. Is a receive buffer overflow a real error? I would say not. But it would be good to count it.

There was also the open question, what exactly does a receive buffer overflow mean?

The spec says:

  9.2.8.11 RXBOE

  Receive Buffer Overflow Error. When set, this bit indicates that the
  receive buffer (from the network) has overflowed and receive frame
  data was lost.

Which is a bit ambiguous. I would hope it means the receiver has dropped the packet. It will not be passed to the host. But other than maybe count it, i don't think there is anything to do. But Ramón was suggesting you actually drop the frame currently be transferred over the SPI bus?

	Andrew