From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stuart Shelton Subject: Re: Severe regression in bnx2 driver with bonding in post 2.6.30 kernels Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:04:34 +0100 Message-ID: <6B2CE77E-B4DD-484F-A69A-6752A4E698DE@openobjects.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Michael Chan Return-path: Received: from 157.187.34.193.bridgep.com ([193.34.187.157]:7181 "EHLO smtp.openobjects.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752890Ab0CaSEg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:04:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Michael, Thanks for the reply. When I first became aware of this problem, I checked ibm.com and applied the most recent Bladecenter/LS21 firmware updates - so the NIC firmware should be current compared to what IBM officially offers. The ethtool output is: $ sudo ethtool -i eg0 driver: bnx2 version: 2.0.1 firmware-version: 4.6.1 ipms 1.6.0 bus-info: 0000:02:04.0 The latest IBM firmware update appears to be: http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5083668&brandind=5000020 Many thanks, Stuart On 31 Mar 2010, at 17:01, Michael Chan wrote: > Stuart Shelton wrote: > >> The Broadcom NetXtreme II driver appears to have a severe >> regression in >> all kernels post 2.6.30 - I've observed problems with 2.6.31, 2.6.32. >> and 2.6.33. >> >> The hardware impacted is an IBM Bladecenter LS21 Blade, model >> 7971. We >> have a large number of these, and all are affected. >> > > Can you provide me ethtool -i eth0 to see what the NVRAM-based > firmware version is? Thanks. >