> -----Original Message-----
> From:
netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org]
> On Behalf Of Eilon Greenstein
> Sent: 05 March 2010 17:32
> To: Fischer, Anna
> Cc: eliezert; Michael Chan;
netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: bnx2x crash dump on high network load
>
> Hi Anna,
>
> On this kernel, enabling bridging (like you do on virtualization) does
> not turn off LRO automatically. Please try to load the bnx2x with
> disable_tpa=1 (TPA is the HW based LRO feature).
>
> Regards,
> Eilon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fischer, Anna [mailto:anna.fischer@hp.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 7:08 PM
> To:
netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: eliezert; Eilon Greenstein; Michael Chan
> Subject: bnx2x crash dump on high network load
>
> I am seeing driver crashes with a bnx2x version 1.50.16. I have attached
> two crash dumps that I have captured.
>
> I run Linux with the following kernel:
>
> # uname -a
> Linux sup-prj-441106 2.6.16.60-0.54.5-debug #1 SMP Fri Sep 4 01:28:03
> UTC 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I am seeing these driver crashes when I run virtual machines (VMware
> Server) and those VMs do high bandwidth network I/O, so there are a lot
> of packets going through the NIC.
>
> Can you give me any hints for what the problem here could be?
>
> Thanks,
> Anna
>
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