Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:35:26 +0200 From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> To: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Stable Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unusable Emulex "oce" driver version in -STABLE, 9.3 and CURRENT Message-ID: <E0656BDA-56B1-4B77-B949-F1973B82385F@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <8D93EDF7-AC0E-4707-AC62-55CBD5F3358D@sarenet.es> References: <8D93EDF7-AC0E-4707-AC62-55CBD5F3358D@sarenet.es>
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On Jun 17, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Borja Marcos wrote: >=20 > Hello, >=20 > This should be fixed before the release of 9.3, and of course as soon = as possible for the rest of the branches. >=20 > At least under 10-STABLE the "oce" driver can cause a panic when = there's a lot of network traffic. I have been able to reproduce it > using "iperf". Sometimes the panic can be triggered within seconds of = starting an iperf test. >=20 > There's a new driver available for download on the Emulex site, = version 10.0.747.0, and it works perfectly. The source code compiles = perfectly > under FreeBSD 10-STABLE (at least recent versions since April) and the = kernel module loads without trouble. >=20 > There's a bug report covering this but seems to be forgotten :/ >=20 > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D183391 In my case, the problem manifests itself running 10. Emulex provides a = more recent driver which compiles perfectly and works perfectly (if we = can safely assume that a weekend saturating a couple of interfaces = runnning benchmarks with no glitches is a good hint). I am now installing the latest beta of 9.3 to see if I can reproduce the = panic. I will follow-up in a couple of hours if possible. Borja.
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