Hi,
Thank you for link for the driver, finally I have release notes. I have found driver itself before in dell iso image and extracted it, but without change log.
We can see there
2. Problem: CQ93244: VM traffic stops after error recovery.
Change:Invoke stop_queue() before disable TPA, to aviod memory leak.
Free Rx filter table during Recovery unload, to avoid memory leak.
Introduced: 2.713.30.v[50,55,60].1
We can see in logs that memleak before first bnx2x_esx_init_rx_ring error:
2017-09-19T21:18:34.615Z cpu3:65645)vmklinux: alloc_pages:1010: This message has repeated 1 times: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=0x0, vmk_PktSlabAllocPage returned 'Out of memory'
2017-09-19T21:18:34.615Z cpu3:65645)<3>[bnx2x_esx_init_rx_ring:1960(vmnic0)]was only able to allocate 192 rx sges
It seems HPE image iso and HPE drivers relase contains this problematic driver. DELL have newer - fixed driver.