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Had the same issue on customer setup today. Turned out to be because of loop mounted FS. cPanel likes to loop mount /tmp (calls it secure tmp) and when fsfreeze is issued, it seems like qemu-ga freezes the underlying fs before the loop mounted one, so the later can't flush to disk and it goes...

What I've found out is these cards, or at least the 40GE CX-3Pro require flow control, no matter which drivers you use. Regarding OFED - in my experience MOFED works if it has support for the running kernel version. You have to use the --skip-distro-check (or something to this effect) but it...

If you're using the cards just for regular ethernet stuff - in tree drivers generally work ok. OFED seems to be too distribution/version specific and maintaining it during os upgrades could be quite a pita. I always prefer the in-tree drivers for the simplicity, unless I need some fancy feature...

What's your network setup? Are you running in ethernet or infiniband mode? What's the hardware (exact card models & switches) and what firmware versions do you run? I've had similar issues when switched a network from QDR infiniband (which was working just fine) to 40GE which initially showed...