[CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

[Peter Kjellström]

On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 12:11:51 PM Peter Kjellström wrote:
> 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.

To follow up on this, we can not reproduce the problem with the 3.x driver as 
shipped with the 5.7 kernel.

/Peter
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