pbraun Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 Hi, On the download page of Tinker board "Ethernet driver needs some fixing" is listed as known issue. Are there any details about? What is the problem with the ethernet? Who should fix it? (Asus, armbian) Are there any plans for fixing it? I'm asking it, because I would like to use my tinker board as a headless 24/7 home cloud. Thank you!
Igor Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 36 minutes ago, pbraun said: Ethernet driver needs some fixin There is more to read:
uwuertz Posted January 4, 2018 Posted January 4, 2018 TEMP SOLVED: Had the same issue with Tinker; my switch is a Netgear. Tinker was frozen during RSYNC backup. Switched from 1000 to 100M Full on switchside, not perfect but it works.
TonyMac32 Posted January 12, 2018 Posted January 12, 2018 On 1/4/2018 at 4:10 PM, uwuertz said: TEMP SOLVED: Had the same issue with Tinker; my switch is a Netgear. Tinker was frozen during RSYNC backup. Switched from 1000 to 100M Full on switchside, not perfect but it works. Did you get any error messages/logs indicating what was happening? I am currently streaming data into and out of the device, but can't seem to get it to freeze, indeed this seems a rare issue so any info you have would be helpful.
stefan.steffens Posted January 13, 2018 Posted January 13, 2018 22 hours ago, TonyMac32 said: Did you get any error messages/logs indicating what was happening? I am currently streaming data into and out of the device, but can't seem to get it to freeze, indeed this seems a rare issue so any info you have would be helpful. in which logfile would I find such errors. I can still produce a freeze by working actively on NFS shares mounted via v4 from my synology NAS. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
TonyMac32 Posted January 13, 2018 Posted January 13, 2018 I would take a look at the dmesg if possible, I don't think this would be logged anywhere else. I have wireshark staring at mine while I try to get it to freeze to see if anything strange happens on the network itself, so stay posted
stefan.steffens Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 I would take a look at the dmesg if possible, I don't think this would be logged anywhere else. I have wireshark staring at mine while I try to get it to freeze to see if anything strange happens on the network itself, so stay postedI couldn't find any errors so in order to identify the root cause I switched my NFS v4 share to Samba v2 and can't get the Tinkerboard to crash anym. In other words it appears to be an issue with the NFS client and not the ethernet driver. Presumably not too many people are using NFS anymore so some issues survived. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Xalius Posted January 27, 2018 Posted January 27, 2018 Has the rx/tx delay been tuned on the Tinkerboard? Since we did that for Pine64/Rock64 most of the GbE issues have gone away. Ayufan made an automated script that uses configfs/dt-overlays to iterate through all the values without rebooting each time, based on tkaiser's scripts... https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/tree/master/recipes/gmac-delays-test This resulted in a small patch that did wonders for GbE performance: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10178969/ Worked both for BSP and mainline... 1
TonyMac32 Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 I have not done this, I'll need to take a look at it once I get a bit further on this Rockchip kernel for Tinker.
stefan.steffens Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 Xalius' tip of disabling rx/tx offloading worked for me. For me ethtool -K eth0 tx off appeared to be sufficient, at least I haven't seen the Tinkerboard freezing on me during heave NFS load via GigEth
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