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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:18:43 +0800 From: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ascale-asia.com> To: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com> CC: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>, Steffen Persvold <sp@...ascale.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: BCM5709 hang and state dump... On 03/07/2013 07:00 PM, Michael Chan wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 18:27 +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote: >> We've hit this again [1], with 3.8.0 this time. Any success on the debug >> patches? > > I have 2 suggestions at this point: > > 1. Some users who report similar issues say that upgrading the BIOS has > fixed the issue. So please try upgarding the BIOS if possible. > > 2. You can also disable MSIX and see if it runs any better. Use sysfs > to do that or simply use bnx2 parameter disable_msi=1. > > I suspect that some MSIX IRQ messages are not delivered to the CPU for > some reason. Please try one or both suggestions and let me know. Yes, we're on the current of each available BIOS/firmware. We'll move to APIC interrupts for the NIC and see how it goes over a few weeks, since it takes a while to occur. Thanks again Michael! Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman Principal Software Engineer, Numascale Asia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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