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Bug 519783

Summary: [QLogic 5.5 bug] qlge - fix hangs and read perfromance [rhel-5.4.z]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jiri Pirko <jpirko>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.5CC: andriusb, berthiaume_wayne, coughlan, dhoward, dzickus, jjarvis, jpirko, peterm, pm-eus, qlogic-redhat-ext, rkhan, rlary, tao, ying.lok
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: OtherQA, ZStream
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.18-164.1.1.el5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-09-29 19:33:50 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 517893    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2009-08-27 19:15:06 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #517893 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.4 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 3 Jiri Pirko 2009-09-08 11:10:53 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-164.1.1.el5

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-29 19:33:50 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1455.html

Comment 8 Richard A Lary 2009-10-02 15:36:51 UTC
On PowerPC platforms an additional step is required to realize the full effect of this qlge driver fix. The qla2xxx driver must be configured to use MSI-X interrupts instead of default INTA interrupts.  

Configure the qla2xxx driver to load with ql2xenablemsix=1 by adding an options line for qla2xxx to /etc/modprobe.conf or appending this option to an already existing options qa2xxx line. 

options qla2xxx ql2xenablemsix=1

After making this change to /etc/modprobe.conf a new initrd must be built as qla2xxx driver loads at boot.

See Red Hat documentation for how to build new initrd.