Okay, shouldnt this be fixed in firmware rather than OS driver so that other operating system users would get around this as well.
Yours Markus Kovero -----Original Message----- From: Matt Domsch [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 22. toukokuuta 2010 3:47 To: Markus Kovero Cc: Steve Thompson; Tom Boland; [email protected] Subject: Re: Dell Power Edge R710 with CentOS On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 03:57:09PM +0300, Markus Kovero wrote: > Latest "fix" for issue is to disable C-states under processor > configuration in bios. this also fixes problems in other OS's > (eg. in solaris) Dell has been aware of the issue for months without > real fix, just workarounds. I'm not sure what "latest" means, but we did manage to find the root cause of the failure where the MSI bit would get stuck - which also explains why disabling MSI-X worked around it. The right solution is to use code already in the driver to manage the timeout on that bit automatically, which is what we are testing with 5.5+ and expect in newer RHEL kernels ASAP. -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
