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