Is it safe to upgrade to kernel 14.22?

[IanHarrison]

Hi

Recently I deployed Proxmox VE to as number of Dell servers with dual 10Gb cards running Broadcom chipset. The kernel used was 7.0.14-20-pve however I found that the cards kept on resetting. After speaking to support I was advised to pin at 7.0.14-19-pve which has worked fine.

Just wondering is it safe to goto 7.0.14-22-pve yet ?

Thanks

Ian

 

[bbgeek17]

Hi @IanHarrison, welcome to the forum.

Did you speak to PVE support or Dell support? If it was PVE support, they should be able to advise you on the stability of *-22. If it was Dell support, did they identify a specific issue that could have caused the resets? If so, you could check whether that issue has been addressed in *-22, or whether any relevant changes between *-19 and *-20 were reverted or updated.

It appears that you may have a hardware compatibility issue specific to your environment. This could be related to server firmware, NIC firmware, kernel drivers, or some combination of these. Without knowing the underlying cause, it would be difficult to advise whether moving to *-22 is safe.

If you have a spare server available, you could also test the newer kernel there first.

Cheers

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[IanHarrison]

Hi
Thanks for the reply after speaking to proxmox support they said it was a know issue in kernel 14-20 with the Broadcom chipset resetting all the time. As soon as I pinned 14-19 the problem stopped.

Ian

 

[bbgeek17]

I would then ask PVE support whether they fill better about *-22!
Let us know what you find out.

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[romoloman]

7.0.14-28 is safe for Broadcom....
I have it installed in my cluster....