5 Aug
2011
5 Aug
'11
3:02 p.m.
2011/8/5 Peter Kjellström cap@nsc.liu.se:
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.
/Peter
Bad news. Starting with EL5.7, the kernel does not have individual patches any more just like EL6. So, removing a patch is not trivial. You'd have to add a patch that reverts the change. It's a pain but doable...
Akemi