[Mesa-dev] AMD RXxxx/Vega: amd-staging-4.12 or amd-staging-drm-next

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Dieter Nützel <Dieter at nuetzel-hh.de> wrote:
> Hello Alex,
>
> which is the 'right' way to switch to (from amd-staging-4.11)?
> 4.13-rx UP (like Phoronix 'found';-)) show nice improvements.

amd-staging-4.12 is our current internal development branch.
amd-staging-drm-next, is just the amd-staging-4.12 branch rebased on
drm-next.  We are in the process of moving our internal development to
track drm-next.  Both branches should work equally well for the most
part.

Alex

>
> Sadly I'm hit by the BAD 'e1000e' nic regression.
> NetworkManager switch it on and off over and over again, since 4.11 UP. ---
> Daniel/Intel???
>
>
> 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network
> Connection
>         Subsystem: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Device 1192
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
>         Memory at b0320000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
>         I/O ports at 4000 [size=32]
>         Memory at b0300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
>         Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>         Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>         Capabilities: [a0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=5 Masked-
>         Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>         Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-19-99-ff-ff-77-b8-0c
>         Kernel driver in use: e1000e
>         Kernel modules: e1000e
>
>
> [    5.230215] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 3.2.6-k
> [    5.230216] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2015 Intel Corporation.
> [    5.230474] e1000e 0000:06:00.0: Interrupt Throttling Rate (ints/sec) set
> to dynamic conservative mode
> [    5.290455] e1000e 0000:06:00.0 0000:06:00.0 (uninitialized): registered
> PHC clock
> [    5.346925] e1000e 0000:06:00.0 eth0: (PCI Express:2.5GT/s:Width x1)
> 00:19:99:77:b8:0c
> [    5.346927] e1000e 0000:06:00.0 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network
> Connection
> [    5.347384] e1000e 0000:06:00.0 eth0: MAC: 3, PHY: 8, PBA No: 313132-030
> [   10.820260] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow
> Control: None
> [   10.829857] e1000e 0000:06:00.0 eth0: changing MTU from 1500 to 7152
> [   15.006499] e1000e 0000:06:00.0 eth0: changing MTU from 7152 to 1500
> [   19.812377] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow
> Control: None
> [   19.820006] e1000e 0000:06:00.0 eth0: changing MTU from 1500 to 7152
> [   24.007317] e1000e 0000:06:00.0 eth0: changing MTU from 7152 to 1500
>
> [to be continued]
>
> Thanks,
> Dieter