No reboot with 4.4 pve kernel

[adamb]

Yea we have had just to many issues with Broadcom in the last 5 years to continue with them. We are jumping ship to all Intel based cards as they seem to have less issues like this.

 

[mweigelt]

i have just installed proxmox 4.3 on a new dell 630 with the same bnx2x issue. any news about this?
is there another workaround except moving to ovs?

 

[sapwood]

The problem still persists in v4.3 (4.3-e7cdc165-2)

Network card:

root@pve01:~# lspci | egrep -i --color 'network|ethernet'
21:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
21:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

Interfaces file:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet manual

iface eth1 inet manual

auto bond0
iface bond0 inet manual
slaves eth0 eth1
bond-miimon 100
bond-mode 1

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
address 172.16.3.57
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 172.16.3.1
bridge_ports bond0
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0

Screenshot:


Workaround:

1. (If unsubscribed) Enable Proxmox VE No-Subscription Repository
   
2. # apt update && apt install openvswitch-switch
   
3. In the web UI, delete every linux bridges and bonds on the node
4. In the web UI, create OVS bridges and bonds
5. Restart (Might need to hard-reset 1 more time)

 

[adamb]

Looks like we aren't out of the woods yet as we have some models with onboard 10G broadcom nic's that we have to utilize. Come on dev's something like this shouldn't go for this long with no fix.

 

[fabian]

Looks like we aren't out of the woods yet as we have some models with onboard 10G broadcom nic's that we have to utilize. Come on dev's something like this shouldn't go for this long with no fix.

we don't have hardware to reproduce this issue. if you do, please help the Ubuntu kernel devs to triage potential fixes over at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1616107 - as soon as a fix is available and tested, we can include it in our official kernel.

 

[fabian]

I built test packages based on our upcoming 4.4.35 kernel with the proposed fix, could you test it and give feedback?

http://download2.proxmox.com/temp/pve/kernel-bnx2x-test/

 

[adamb]

I built test packages based on our upcoming 4.4.35 kernel with the proposed fix, could you test it and give feedback?

http://download2.proxmox.com/temp/pve/kernel-bnx2x-test/

I can confirm that this issue is resolved.

 

[fabian]

Thanks for the feedback - it's on track to be merged in Ubuntu's kernel as well. Will be included in our next kernel release.