On Friday, August 05, 2011 05:25:13 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
On 8/5/2011 9:46 AM, Peter Kjellström wrote:
Our X520 are still stable except for one recent problem, 2.6.18-238.9.1 -> 2.6.18-238.12.1 broke it quite bad. With 238.12.1 our servers start dropping all incomming packets after a while. Sanity can be (temporarily restored with a "ethtool --negotiate ethX").
We are currently running a kernel that excludes: linux-2.6-net-ixgbe-fix-for-82599-erratum-on-header-splitting.patch
since that's what seems to break our setup.
Has the bug been reported upstream?
Nope, due to: 1) no reproducer and 2) the "next" EL kernel will have a new major version of the driver code making it quite pointless to invest effort/time in the 2.x driver.
If more information surfaces (maybe in this thread) and/or the problem persists with the 3.x driver then a bz will most likely be created.
/Peter