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Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang

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I have determined that Debian was complaining about my ethernet port
because I had flow control enabled on the switch, and the switch was
getting easily overwhelmed and hanging, so the Debian resets were valid.

Thank you for the research on this.  I think you can close this case.

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On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 02:42:30AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 TX watchdog fires on e1000e interface with flow control enabled
> 
> On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 18:36 -0400, Bruce Momjian,,, wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 04:04:11PM -0400, Bruce Momjian,,, wrote:
> > > I think this proves my problems are related to flow control.  How would
> > > you like to proceed?  Is there a patch or change you would like me to
> > > test?  Just close the ticket?
> > > 
> > > I have a fix, but it is likely others would not know they had this
> > > problem unless they were monitoring their kernel logs or their network
> > > traffic for lag.
> > 
> > Oh, I should also mention the port that is having problems is connected
> > to a NetGear GS108Ev3 switch, with current firmware, version 2.00.09. 
> > The port connected to my Actiontec FIOS router is not having problems.
> 
> I don't know about any specific bug, but if the switch sends flow
> control XOFF frames continually for long enough (usually 5 seconds)
> this will trigger the TX watchdog.
> 
> It sounds like your switch implements flow control properly (some
> broken switches auto-negotiate it but actually flood flow control
> frames).  However, if a device on some other port (that also has flow
> control enabled) sends XOFF frames continually *and* your server sends
> frames that should go to that other port, the switch will do the same
> to the server once the switch's internal queue has filled up.
> 
> If the switch has port statistics including numbers of pause frames
> then you can see where they are coming from, but I think it doesn't.
> Without that information it's going to be hard to tell exactly where
> the fault lies.
> 
> The e1000e driver *does* have statistics for pause frames transmitted
> and received (run: "ethtool -S eth0| grep flow_control").  If you log
> these every second then it should be possible to see what happens
> around the time the TX watchdog fires.  That could provide some clues
> as to whether the NIC is behaving correctly.
> 
> Ben.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Hutchings
> Power corrupts.  Absolute power is kind of neat.
>                            - John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy
> 1981-1987



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Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-03-18 22:10 +0100
  Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang "Bruce Momjian,,," <bruce@momjian.us> - 2017-03-18 22:20 +0100
    Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-03-18 23:10 +0100
      Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang "Bruce Momjian,,," <bruce@momjian.us> - 2017-03-18 23:20 +0100
        Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang "Bruce Momjian,,," <bruce@momjian.us> - 2017-03-18 23:40 +0100
          Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang "Bruce Momjian,,," <bruce@momjian.us> - 2017-03-21 21:10 +0100
            Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang "Bruce Momjian,,," <bruce@momjian.us> - 2017-03-21 23:40 +0100
              Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-03-22 03:50 +0100
                Processed: Re: Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs  occasionally, kernel reports hang owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2017-03-22 03:50 +0100
                Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang "Bruce Momjian,,," <bruce@momjian.us> - 2017-03-22 04:20 +0100
                Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang "Bruce Momjian,,," <bruce@momjian.us> - 2017-03-23 04:50 +0100
                Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang "Bruce Momjian,,," <bruce@momjian.us> - 2017-03-23 20:30 +0100
                Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang "Bruce Momjian,,," <bruce@momjian.us> - 2017-04-11 00:10 +0200
                Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang "Bruce Momjian,,," <bruce@momjian.us> - 2017-08-12 01:40 +0200
  Bug#858125: e1000: ethernet interface hangs occasionally, kernel reports hang "Bruce Momjian,,," <bruce@momjian.us> - 2017-03-18 23:00 +0100

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