Intel I350 mini-PCIe card (igb) on Mirabox (mvebu / Armada 370)

Matthew Minter matthew_minter at xyratex.com
Tue Apr 8 03:53:33 PDT 2014


Just to confirm, this patch is stopping my kernel panic also, I am
still suffering from another minor issue however this does seem to be
the crux of my problem also. I can however happily say that I regard
my hotplug issue closed.

Many thanks guys

On 8 April 2014 07:40, Willy Tarreau <w at 1wt.eu> wrote:
> Oh and BTW, it also fixed another issue I had loading myri10ge on this
> board :
>
> Before the patch :
>
> root at xpgp:~# lspci -vvnn |egrep -i '^0|memory'
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:7846] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>         Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000-000fffff
> 00:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:7846] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>         Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000-000fffff
> 00:0a.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:7846] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>         Memory behind bridge: e0000000-e17fffff
>         Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000-000fffff
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: MYRICOM Inc. Myri-10G Dual-Protocol NIC [14c1:0008]
>         Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         Region 2: Memory at e1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
>
> root at xpgp:~# modprobe myri10ge
> myri10ge: Version 1.5.3-1.534
> PCI: enabling device 0000:00:0a.0 (0140 -> 0143)
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: PCIE x4 Link
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: Falling back to user helper
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: Unable to load myri10ge_eth_z8e.dat firmware image via hotplug
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: hotplug firmware loading failed
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: Successfully adopted running firmware
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: Using firmware currently running on NIC.  For optimal
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: performance consider loading optimized firmware
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: via hotplug
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: dummy rdma enable failed
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: command 44 timed out, result = -1
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: command 12 timed out, result = -1
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: failed MXGEFW_CMD_GET_RX_RING_SIZE
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: failed to load firmware
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: myri10ge_probe() failed: MAC=00:60:dd:47:63:e1, SN=320225
>
> After the patch, the lspci output is *exactly* the same but it works
> much better :
>
> root at xpgp:~# lspci -vvnn |egrep -i '^0|memory'
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:7846] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>         Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000-000fffff
> 00:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:7846] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>         Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000-000fffff
> 00:0a.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:7846] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>         Memory behind bridge: e0000000-e17fffff
>         Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000-000fffff
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: MYRICOM Inc. Myri-10G Dual-Protocol NIC [14c1:0008]
>         Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         Region 2: Memory at e1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
>
> root at xpgp:~# modprobe myri10ge
> myri10ge: Version 1.5.3-1.534
> PCI: enabling device 0000:00:0a.0 (0140 -> 0143)
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: PCIE x1 Link
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: Falling back to user helper
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: Unable to load myri10ge_eth_z8e.dat firmware image via hotplug
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: hotplug firmware loading failed
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: Successfully adopted running firmware
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: Using firmware currently running on NIC.  For optimal
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: performance consider loading optimized firmware
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: via hotplug
> myri10ge 0000:03:00.0: MSI IRQ 112, tx bndry 2048, fw adopted, WC Disabled
> root at xpgp:~#
>
> Thus I guess that the timeout I was seeing above during the modprobe was
> caused by the incorrect mbus window.
>
> So +1 on this part of the patch here :
>
>         port->memwin_size = roundup_pow_of_two(port->memwin_size);
>
> Cheers,
> Willy
>

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