Re: Intel 82599 driver?

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2011/8/5 Peter Kjellström <cap@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Our X520 are still stable except for one recent problem, 2.6.18-238.9.1 ->
> 2.6.18-238.12.1 broke it quite bad. With 238.12.1 our servers start dropping
> all incomming packets after a while. Sanity can be (temporarily restored with
> a "ethtool --negotiate ethX").
>
> We are currently running a kernel that excludes:
>  linux-2.6-net-ixgbe-fix-for-82599-erratum-on-header-splitting.patch
> since that's what seems to break our setup.
>
> /Peter

Bad news. Starting with EL5.7, the kernel does not have individual
patches any more just like EL6. So, removing a patch is not trivial.
You'd have to add a patch that reverts the change. It's a pain but
doable...

Akemi
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