On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:50 , Fredrik Pettai wrote: > On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: >> >> I will try to dig it out reasonably quickly, but it's non-trivial and I >> can't publish the repository it's in. >> >> If your systems is running fine with 1 or 2 interfaces on the quad-port >> card, you are likely not having the problem the patch fixes. The >> symptoms of the bug are that no packets can be received on an interface >> (because there are no mbufs on the receive ring, and none free), but the >> system mostly works otherwise. > > To my surprise, the server got unresponsive again yesterday...(and it's > currently just using a single interface). > I applied your patch (thanks btw.) and rebooted the machine. I'll patch up > the other interfaces later today, to speed up the process of triggering the > problem we've been seeing... No, I was wrong. Someone had put the cables back in during my holiday. And even after I applied your patch to the bnx driver, it still gets unresponsive after a while, with 2+ interfaces connected. Is there a PR for this quad port pci bridge problem? Re, /P
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