Bug 698109 – Bond interface flapping and increasing rx_missed_errors [rhel-6.0.z]

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Bug 698109 - Bond interface flapping and increasing rx_missed_errors [rhel-6.0.z]

Summary:	Bond interface flapping and increasing rx_missed_errors [rhel-6.0.z]

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	6.0
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority	urgent Severity urgent
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Frantisek Hrbata
QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team
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Keywords:	ZStream

Depends On:	696337
Blocks:
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Reported:	2011-04-20 04:40 EDT by RHEL Product and Program Management
Modified:	2013-01-10 22:57 EST (History)
CC List:	15 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	kernel-2.6.32-71.28.1.el6
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	During light or no network traffic, the active-backup interface bond using ARP monitoring with validation could go down and return due to an overflow or underflow of system timer interrupt ticks (jiffies). With this update, the jiffies calculation issues problems have been fixed and a bond interface works as expected.
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Last Closed:	2011-05-10 14:11:59 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2011:0498	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update	2011-05-10 14:10:04 EDT

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Description RHEL Product and Program Management 2011-04-20 04:40:18 EDT

This bug has been copied from bug #696337 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.0 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 6 Martin Prpič 2011-05-05 04:53:02 EDT

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
During light or no network traffic, the active-backup interface bond using ARP monitoring with validation could go down and return due to an overflow or underflow of system timer interrupt ticks (jiffies). With this update, the jiffies calculation issues problems have been fixed and a bond interface works as expected.

Comment 7 Weibing Zhang 2011-05-09 03:51:58 EDT

We do not have the evironment needed for testing this bug.
Review the code with kernel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6 and set SanityOnly.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-10 14:11:59 EDT

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-2011-0498.html

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