From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753653Ab2KLPaA (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:30:00 -0500 Received: from umail.aei.mpg.de ([194.94.224.6]:36596 "EHLO umail.aei.mpg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753687Ab2KLP37 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:29:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:29:57 +0100 From: Steffen Grunewald To: =?utf-8?B?546L6YeR5rWm?= Cc: LKML , htejun@gmail.com, tj@kernel.org, Carsten Aulbert Subject: Re: Need assistance fixing a tg3 driver side-effect on IPMI Message-ID: <20121112152957.GP30936@casco.aei.mpg.de> References: <20121107082820.GP30936@casco.aei.mpg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:40:19PM +0800, 王金浦 wrote: > Ferenc met samilar problem : > > "Michael Chan" 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 > > 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 -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin * --------------------------------- * http://www.aei.mpg.de/ * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7274,fax:7298}