Cheers Balagopal! I was in the process of building my own kernel, which looks to have worked - I got the rpms in the build directory.<br><br>But I followed your commands to enable me to build it under the Centos5 with the lustre kernel source installed. Working like a charm now!
<br><br>How did you see if the interface was dropping frames?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Balagopal Pillai</b> <<a href="mailto:pillai@mathstat.dal.ca">pillai@mathstat.dal.ca
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br> Now i remember what i did to build the bnx2 sources. Here is the
<br>part from Lustre Manual.<br><br>"<br><br>The kernel-source and lustre-source packages are provided in case you<br>need to build external kernel modules or use additional network types.<br>They are not required to run Lustre.
<br><br>Once you have your Lustre source tree you can build Lustre by running<br>the sequence of commands given below.<br><br> $ cd <path to kernel tree><br><br> $ cp /boot/config-'uname -r' .config
<br><br> $ make oldconfig || make menuconfig<br><br># For 2.6 kernels<br><br> $ make include/asm<br><br> $ make include/linux/version.h<br><br> $ make SUBDIRS=scripts<br><br>"<br><br> This is it!!
<br><br><br>Regards<br>Balagopal<br><br><br><br><br><br>Matt wrote:<br>> I think you guys are spot on, this client is running on a Dell 1950.<br>><br>> I'm in the process of rebuilding the box with the Centos 5 kernel
<br>> along with the source so I can patch it with lustre to build my own<br>> kernel and obviously build the bnx2 driver.<br>><br>> I would obviously rather just use the lustre rpm's like I have been<br>> doing, but was unable to build the bnx2 driver against the lustre
<br>> kernel source. I'm guessing because it's not complete.<br>><br>> If anyone knows any different then please say so.<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>><br>> Matt<br>><br>> On 07/11/2007, *Balagopal Pillai* <
<a href="mailto:pillai@mathstat.dal.ca">pillai@mathstat.dal.ca</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:pillai@mathstat.dal.ca">pillai@mathstat.dal.ca</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> Looks like the broadcom driver issue to me too. I had the
<br>> similar problem with kernel panic<br>> for the Lustre kernel on Dell pe1950 with Centos 4.5 and updating the<br>> bnx2 driver solved the issue.<br>> Also the interface has the tendency to drop frames. Increasing the rx
<br>> ring parameters with ethtool<br>> fixes that problem.<br>><br>><br>> Regards<br>> Balagopal<br>><br>> Bernd Schubert wrote:<br>> > Hi Matt,<br>> ><br>> > On Wednesday 07 November 2007 12:50:32 Matt wrote:
<br>> ><br>> >> Hi folks,<br>> >><br>> >> Built servers with Centos 5, and installed the lustre rhel5_x86<br>> rpms<br>> >> successfully, modified grub and booted in to the new kernel.
<br>> >><br>> >> Configured a mgs/mdt two OSTs and a client.<br>> >><br>> >> Now when running iozone from the client I always receive a<br>> kernel panic in<br>> >> the lines of:
<br>> >><br>> >> Call trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff88149e4b>] :<br>> bnx2:bnx2_start_xmt+0x49/0x4d8<br>> >> Code: 49 8b 85 e8 00 00 00<br>> >> RIP [<ffffffff88146e91>] : bnx2:bnx2_poll+0xf7/0xb75 RSP <......>
<br>> >> CR2: 0.....<br>> >> <0> Kernel Panic - not syncing : Fatal Exception<br>> >><br>> >> I have attached a screenshot.<br>> >><br>> >> When I bounce the client and remount I can access the lustre fs
<br>> fine, seems<br>> >> to be purely a client issue.<br>> >><br>> >> Any ideas?<br>> >><br>> ><br>> > looks very much like a bug in the broadcom nx2 driver. I would
<br>> send it to<br>> > linux-netdev. And as a first try I would check whats happens<br>> when you disable<br>> > MSI for this driver.<br>> ><br>> > Cheers,<br>> > Bernd
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