> During those tests, we noticed the machines were randomly freezing after some time, so we decided to upgrade the firmware of the network cards,
Reminds me of the various i40e Tx freezes I debugged while at Joyent. Granted, this is the illumos driver, not Intel's, but basically there were issues with the programming guide that I had to figure out the hard way. The 700-series controllers have not been the easiest to work with.
Reminds me of the various i40e Tx freezes I debugged while at Joyent. Granted, this is the illumos driver, not Intel's, but basically there were issues with the programming guide that I had to figure out the hard way. The 700-series controllers have not been the easiest to work with.
https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-7492 [Tx freeze when b_cont chain exceeds 8 descriptors]
https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-7457 [i40e Tx freezes on zero descriptors]