On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 13:01 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 10:15:05 Ding Tianhong wrote: > > On 2015/1/20 4:34, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Monday 19 January 2015 19:11:11 Alexander Graf wrote: > > >> > > >> After hammering on the box a bit again, I'm in a situation where I get > > >> lots of > > >> > > >> [302398.232603] hip04-ether e28b0000.ethernet eth0: rx drop > > >> [302398.377309] hip04-ether e28b0000.ethernet eth0: rx drop > > >> [302398.395198] hip04-ether e28b0000.ethernet eth0: rx drop > > >> [302398.466118] hip04-ether e28b0000.ethernet eth0: rx drop > > >> [302398.659009] hip04-ether e28b0000.ethernet eth0: rx drop > > >> [302399.053389] hip04-ether e28b0000.ethernet eth0: rx drop > > >> [302399.122067] hip04-ether e28b0000.ethernet eth0: rx drop > > >> [302399.268192] hip04-ether e28b0000.ethernet eth0: rx drop > > >> [302399.286081] hip04-ether e28b0000.ethernet eth0: rx drop > > >> [302399.594201] hip04-ether e28b0000.ethernet eth0: rx drop > > >> [302399.683416] hip04-ether e28b0000.ethernet eth0: rx drop > > >> [302399.701307] hip04-ether e28b0000.ethernet eth0: rx drop > > >> > > >> and I really am getting a lot of drops - I can't even ping the machine > > >> anymore. > > >> > > >> However, as it is there's a good chance the machine is simply > > >> unreachable because it's busy writing to the UART, and even if not all > > >> useful messages indicating anything have scrolled out. I really don't > > >> think you should emit any message over and over again to the user. Once > > >> or twice is enough. [] > The hip04 ethernet driver currently acknowledges all interrupts directly > in the interrupt handler, and leaves all interrupts except the RX data > enabled the whole time. This causes multiple problems: [] > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c [] > @@ -564,23 +563,21 @@ static irqreturn_t hip04_mac_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id) > if (!ists) > return IRQ_NONE; > > - writel_relaxed(DEF_INT_MASK, priv->base + PPE_RINT); > - > if (unlikely(ists & DEF_INT_ERR)) { > - if (ists & (RCV_NOBUF | RCV_DROP)) > + if (ists & (RCV_NOBUF | RCV_DROP)) { > stats->rx_errors++; > stats->rx_dropped++; > - netdev_err(ndev, "rx drop\n" > + netdev_dbg(ndev, "rx drop\n"); > + } > if (ists & TX_DROP) { > stats->tx_dropped++; > - netdev_err(ndev, "tx drop\n"); > + netdev_dbg(ndev, "tx drop\n"); > } > } > While these are dubious messages to output at all, it probably would benefit to use net_ratelimit() before the netdev_dbg() and maybe output the counter as well: if (...) { stats++ if (net_ratelimit()) netdev_dbg(ndev, "[rt]x drop: %u\n", stats); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html