HP BL460c G6 and SLES 10 SP3

[cjcox]

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 16:16 +0000, paulnorthrup wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed SLES 10 SP3 on a HP BL460c G6 blade. It looked like
> everything was detected. After entering the activation code I ran the
> automatic update. No patches.
> I have had problems with detecting the HP NC-Series Broadcom 1GbE &
> 10GbE hardware but SP3 recognised the NIC.
>
> After the install I stress tested the NIC.
> It failed resulting in massive entries in /var/log/warn
>
> Oct 15 10:24:42 ed-svr-177 kernel: [bnx2x_stats_update:4294(eth0)]storm
> stats were not updated for 3 times
> Oct 15 10:24:42 ed-svr-177 kernel:
> [bnx2x_stats_update:4295(eth0)]driver assert
> Oct 15 10:24:42 ed-svr-177 kernel: [bnx2x_panic_dump:592(eth0)]begin
> crash dump -----------------
> Oct 15 10:24:42 ed-svr-177 kernel:
> [bnx2x_panic_dump:600(eth0)]def_c_idx(179) def_u_idx(0) def_x_idx(0)
> def_t_idx(0) def_att_idx(6) attn_state(0) spq_prod_idx(182)
> Oct 15 10:24:42 ed-svr-177 kernel: [bnx2x_panic_dump:611(eth0)]fp0:
> rx_bd_prod(2789) rx_bd_cons(78b) *rx_bd_cons_sb(1795)
> rx_comp_prod(2880) rx_comp_cons(1880) *rx_cons_sb(187f)
> <<...SNIP...>>
>
> I located the bnx2x in the kernel "Provides" section.
> /lib/modules/2.6.16.60-0.54.5-smp/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2x.ko
>
> I re-booted the server and repeated the process. Another "panic_dump"
> happened.
>
> I'm going to install the NIC driver from HP
> {netxtreme2-5.0.17-1.src.rpm} and see if that resolves the "panic_dump"

Probably...
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...&swEnvOID=2078

This has become a faily well known issue. Gets really weird on
VMware ESX because 3.5 Update 4 (4?) has the driver and the
brand new VSphere 4 does not.