Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:29:57 +0100 | From | Steffen Grunewald <> | Subject | Re: Need assistance fixing a tg3 driver side-effect on IPMI |
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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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