Re: [E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel

2018-01-12 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On 11/01/2018 10:40 μμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: > No, not the i40e driver, the maintainer of stable kernels. Start here: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS > I thought you meant the maintainer of the driver. As far as I know and learned by reading various kernel mailing lists the pro

Re: [E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel

2018-01-11 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On 11/01/2018 09:46 μμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: > All these commits go through David Miller to Linus's tree. I'm not sure where > the documentation is. I'd start with kernel.org or google for it. > I will do another google round, may be I am lucky this time. > As for pullups to the stable trees,

[E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel

2018-01-10 Thread Pavlos Parissis
Hi, I have been following this list for some time and I see a lot of commits with improvements and bug fixes and I would like to know if those commits are pushed to Linus's tree and more particular to stable trees. What is the current policy of back porting fixes to LTS kernels? When I look at

Re: [E1000-devel] Instability of i40e driver on 4.9 kernel

2018-01-10 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On 05/01/2018 05:00 μμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: > Sorry I missed this, but the answer I provided is still the same: you need to > contact HPE directly about their hardware configuration of the part. They buy > the Ethernet controller from Intel, but they have a unique configuration that > allows t

Re: [E1000-devel] Instability of i40e driver on 4.9 kernel

2018-01-05 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On 4 November 2017 at 13:56, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > On 26/10/2017 11:14 μμ, Pavlos Parissis wrote: >> On 26/10/2017 11:01 μμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: >>> So let me back off that statement a little bit - the driver hands off a lot >>> of >>> requests to th

Re: [E1000-devel] Instability of i40e driver on 4.9 kernel

2017-11-07 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On 26/10/2017 11:14 μμ, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > On 26/10/2017 11:01 μμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: >> So let me back off that statement a little bit - the driver hands off a lot >> of >> requests to the firmware. >> >> I've had several people look at this

Re: [E1000-devel] Instability of i40e driver on 4.9 kernel

2017-10-26 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On 26/10/2017 11:01 μμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: > So let me back off that statement a little bit - the driver hands off a lot of > requests to the firmware. > > I've had several people look at this issue and it could be because there's > LLDP > going on in the firmware that might need to be turned

Re: [E1000-devel] Instability of i40e driver on 4.9 kernel

2017-10-26 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On 26/10/2017 01:29 πμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: > We will be looking into the issue, but I'm just letting you know the process > of how to file bugs > and get fixes most quickly. > > Also, the X710 is our first product (of many) that has much of the > functionality in the firmware. > You need to u

Re: [E1000-devel] Instability of i40e driver on 4.9 kernel

2017-10-25 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On 26/10/2017 12:13 πμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: > This is just about the last part of your post, about the 4.9 kernel and > CentOS. > > Are you using the stable 4.9 kernel or are you hoping patches get pulled into > the CentOS 4.9 kernel? We use vanilla kernel without any patches. > If it's the la

[E1000-devel] Instability of i40e driver on 4.9 kernel

2017-10-25 Thread Pavlos Parissis
Hi all, I mailed to netdev and inter-wired-lan about stability issues with i40e driver on 4.9 kernels and Todd Fujinaka suggested to mail this ML instead about our issue. We have been running 4.9 kernels for several months on CentOS 7.3 and for few weeks on CentOS 7.4, and after we replaced 10Gb