Re: Need assistance fixing a tg3 driver side-effect on IPMI

[Steffen Grunewald <Steffen.Grunewald@aei.mpg.de>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:40:19PM +0800, 王金浦 wrote:
> Ferenc met samilar problem :
> 
> "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 18:49 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> >
> >> Going into the opposite direction: I found that Linux 3.6 does not
> >> permanently break the SoL console on upping eth0!  I'll try to find
> >> the commit which (sort of) fixed it.
> >
> > These are the likely fixes:
> >
> > commit cf9ecf4b631f649a964fa611f1a5e8874f2a76db
> > Author: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
> > Date: Mon Nov 28 09:41:03 2011 +0000
> >
> > tg3: Fix TSO CAP for 5704 devs w / ASF enabled
> 
> You are exactly right: cf9ecf4b fixed the premanent SoL breakage
> introduced by dabc5c67.  Looks like ASF utilizes similar technology to
> that of the HS20 BMC.  Thanks for the tip, it greatly reduced our CPU
> wear. :)  It's a pity ethtool -k did not give a hint.  Do you think it's
> possible to work around in 3.2 by eg. fiddling some ethtool setting?
> 
> the fix already go into Precise update to 3.2.31 stable release
> 
> So update your kernel should fix your problem.

Indeed, only a few days ago, 3.2.32 migrated into Wheezy - which cures
the problem.

Issue resolved (for now).

Thanks a lot to everyone,
 S

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