Hi Todd On 11/15/15 19:05, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: > I looked at the issue and I may have missed the reason you need to update > your servers? >
Well, we run a heterogeneous set of servers (mainly four major kinds at the moment) and try to stick to one kernel version for them all in order to ease maintenance. And the newest machines have hardware not supported on 3.2 kernels. > First, we don't directly support Debian. I've seen some errors reported on > Debian that aren't reproducible even on Ubuntu, which should be similar. We > support RHEL n and n-1, and SLES n and n-1 which means the latest release and > the latest previous release (for RHEL that would be the latest in 6.x and > 7.x, for SLES the latest 12 and 11). We also support the stable Linux > kernels. The reason for the limits is that the distros often backport patches > to their kernel, making something unique. > First off, the differences between Ubuntu and Debian are to be expected as Ubuntu usually draws from a mix of Debian testing and unstable and thus may differ quite a bit from Debian stable. That's also one reason we go for mostly vanilla kernels directly from kernel.org and not from Debian proper. I.e. currently we are using longterm supported 3.14 from kernel.org > Second, the part you're referencing is EOLed and is receiving minimal support. > Understood --- still I had hoped that this regression would have been fixed since our first report almost four years ago. > I would suggest staying with your working kernel. You could also try a > different OS, but that's just an experiment. Different OS will not really work as we have (many) other constraints to take into the picture, but I will check if we can move back to version 3.2 and hope that our cgroups related constraints are still satisfied. Thanks a lot for the reply Cheers Carsten -- Dr. Carsten Aulbert, Atlas cluster administration Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Callinstraße 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Tel: +49 511 762 17185, Fax: +49 511 762 17193 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
