i have tested next configurations for several days:

standalone 2.2.9 driver with 2.6.35-rc4 and RSS=0
standalone 2.2.9 driver with 2.6.33.2 and RSS=0
statically linked driver with 2.6.35-rc4 kernel

all three configurations had no any problems.
seems that IGB was fixed in 35-rc4.

gonna try 2.6.34.1 with static drivers tomorrow night.


On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:45 AM, sbs [off-list ref] wrote:

I have tested 2.0.6 and 2.1.9 modules for 4 days and there were no any
issues detected :)


On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Alexander Duyck
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

sbs wrote:

quoted

We're running 2.6.33.2 kernel version.
I have compiled and installed 2.0.6 and 2.1.9 modules on two our servers.

Strange freezes usually appears in several (1 or 2) days.
So I'll let you know when it happen and what module version will be
responsible for that

Since the issue is being seen with the in-kernel driver and not the
standalone module one other possibility is that this could be an issue that
is specific to multi-queue.  You can test for this by setting the RSS
parameter to 0 for the standalone module to enable multiple queues on the
2.2.9 driver.

Thank you, I'll install 2.6.35-rc4 today on several servers with both
standalone(with RSS=0) and static driver and let you know after.

quoted

One other thing you might want to try would be to test the latest release
candidate kernel from kernel.org.  This would help to tell us if this is
still an issue in the current kernel, or an issue that is present in just
2.6.33.

Thanks,

Alex

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