Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, May 27, 2009 14:32:30 -0500 Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 26 May 2009 02:08:38 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On May 25, 2009 4:02:57 PM -0700 Carlos Pardo wrote: > We are back porting the bce driver from 8.0 to 7.0. We are still missing > some changes since cold boots work but reboot

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
loaded server with 2 months uptime and with quite lot of traffic going through that card. Don't have local archives handy, but here ya go: -- Mel tomorrow

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:37:47 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> Why would you need to do that? There is a bce driver in the 7.x OS > >> already. > > > > Cause it's unstable? Search these or many other archives. The short > > answer: under IO load the card drops net link or panics kernel. > > is it a

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Why would you need to do that? There is a bce driver in the 7.x OS already. Cause it's unstable? Search these or many other archives. The short answer: under IO load the card drops net link or panics kernel. is it any recipe to trigger that behaviour? i have that card (builtin) on loaded se

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 02:08:38 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On May 25, 2009 4:02:57 PM -0700 Carlos Pardo > > wrote: > > We are back porting the bce driver from 8.0 to 7.0. We are still missing > > some changes since cold boots work but rebooting (warm booting) fails! > > > > The error is: > > > > bce

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-25 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On May 25, 2009 4:02:57 PM -0700 Carlos Pardo wrote: We are back porting the bce driver from 8.0 to 7.0. We are still missing some changes since cold boots work but rebooting (warm booting) fails! The error is: bce0: ../../../dev/bce/if_bce.c(1386); Unable to write CTX memory: cid_addr = 0

Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-25 Thread Carlos Pardo
We are back porting the bce driver from 8.0 to 7.0. We are still missing some changes since cold boots work but rebooting (warm booting) fails! The error is: bce0: ../../../dev/bce/if_bce.c(1386); Unable to write CTX memory: cid_addr = 0x, offset = 0x! files back ported: bce/if_