[DRBD-user] DRBD serious locking due to TOE - RESULT

Art Age Software artagesw at gmail.com
Fri Dec 14 22:30:03 CET 2007

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


This thread has me a bit concerned, as I'm using Dell PowerEdge
servers which use on-board versions of these NICs:

Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.5.11-rh (June 4, 2007)
eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit
133MHz found at mem da000000, IRQ 169, node addr 0019b9b993a7

Would they be subject to this issue as well?

Sam

>On Friday 14 December 2007 21:29:30 Ben Clewett wrote:
> Florian and Dr J Pelan,
>
> I managed to get the correct software to upgrade the firmware on my
> NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-SX network cards.
>
> The only thing it changed was the iSCSI, from 1.0.0 to 1.1.8.
>
> This seems to have fixed the problem.  The load is predictable and no
> DRBD locking has been seen so far.  The problem seems to have been solved.
>
>I stand corrected. :-)
>
>For those of you as ignorant as I was of these particular NICs (although I
>have been using them for some time), it appears after some research that all
>the BCM5708 devices, whether by Broadcom or re-branded by OEMs, do support
>both iSCSI and TOE in hardware, and RDMA as well. Even though the iSCSI
>engine appears quite broken in its original incarnation, per Ben's
>observation.
>
>Thank you for that insight.
>
>Ben, just for the record, can you give us your "lspci -nn | grep BCM5708"
>please?
>
>Cheers,
>Florian



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