From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bo Mackey Subject: Re: Severe regression in bnx2 driver with bonding in post 2.6.30 kernels Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:21:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4BB3463A.2000801@openobjects.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38551 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754505Ab2EQUZI (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2012 16:25:08 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SV7Fw-0007S4-4d for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 22:25:04 +0200 Received: from sjck-dmz-wsa-2.cisco.com ([173.36.196.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 22:25:04 +0200 Received: from bomack08 by sjck-dmz-wsa-2.cisco.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 22:25:04 +0200 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Stuart Shelton openobjects.com> writes: > > > Hi all, > > 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. > > We use generic channel-bonding, with the following options in modprobe.conf: > Hi Stuart, et. al., Has the above issue been fixed? If so, can you please share the root cause and the diffs? Seeing a similar issue in version 2.0.8 of the bnx2 driver. Thank you, Bo