Hi All, Wondering if the Intel X520-DA2 10G Fibre NIC is supported in stable/8. Hardware notes don't specify it, but I have a system up and the interfaces appear to be loaded by the ix driver. However, status indicates "no carrier". -- Take care Rick Miller
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> wrote:> Hi All, > > Wondering if the Intel X520-DA2 10G Fibre NIC is supported in > stable/8. ?Hardware notes don't specify it, but I have a system up and > the interfaces appear to be loaded by the ix driver. ?However, status > indicates "no carrier".Ok, brain fart. Please forgive my ineptitude. I once sent an email inquiring about the Intel 82599, which is this NIC. Responses to that mail say it's supported by the ixgbe driver. My stable/8 installation (5/21/2012) probes it with an ix driver that I cannot find any info on. The ixgbe manage indicates it only supports 82598 based controllers. Not sure what to think here...
You can probably turn hw.ixgbe.num_queues down to 2 or 4 and cut your mbuf consumption dramatically without noticing any loss of performance. -A On Jun 22, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Rick Miller wrote:> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> wrote: >> Increase your system mbuf pool size, you do not want that failure to happen. > > Thanks, Jack. I saw a thread where you discussed this. You are > referring to kern.ipc.nmbclusters, correct? > > Should I also adjust the following? > > hw.ixgbe.rxd > hw.ixgbe.txd > hw.ixgbe.num_queues > hw.intr_storm_threshold-------------------------------------------------- Andrew Boyer aboyer@averesystems.com