Thread (57 messages) 57 messages, 12 authors, 2009-11-30

Re: ixgbe question

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2009-11-24 09:55:49
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Peter P Waskiewicz Jr a écrit :
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
You might have this elsewhere, but it sounds like you're connecting back
to back with another 82599 NIC.  Our optics in that NIC are dual-rate,
and the software mechanism that tries to "autoneg" link speed gets out
of sync easily in back-to-back setups.

If it's really annoying, and you're willing to run with a local patch to
disable the autotry mechanism, try this:
diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index a5036f7..62c0915 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -4670,6 +4670,10 @@ static void ixgbe_multispeed_fiber_task(struct
work_struct *work)
        autoneg = hw->phy.autoneg_advertised;
        if ((!autoneg) && (hw->mac.ops.get_link_capabilities))
                hw->mac.ops.get_link_capabilities(hw, &autoneg,
&negotiation);
+
+       /* force 10G only */
+       autoneg = IXGBE_LINK_SPEED_10GB_FULL;
+
        if (hw->mac.ops.setup_link)
                hw->mac.ops.setup_link(hw, autoneg, negotiation, true);
        adapter->flags |= IXGBE_FLAG_NEED_LINK_UPDATE;
Thanks ! This did the trick :)

If I am not mistaken, number of TX queues should be capped by number of possible cpus ?

Its currently a fixed 128 value, allocating 128*128 = 16384 bytes,
and polluting "tc -s -d class show dev fiber0" output.

[PATCH net-next-2.6] ixgbe: Do not allocate too many netdev txqueues

Instead of allocating 128 struct netdev_queue per device, use the minimum
value between 128 and number of possible cpus, to reduce ram usage and
"tc -s -d class show dev ..." output
diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index ebcec30..ec2508d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -5582,7 +5583,10 @@ static int __devinit ixgbe_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	pci_set_master(pdev);
 	pci_save_state(pdev);
 
-	netdev = alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(struct ixgbe_adapter), MAX_TX_QUEUES);
+	netdev = alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(struct ixgbe_adapter),
+				   min_t(unsigned int,
+					 MAX_TX_QUEUES,
+					 num_possible_cpus()));
 	if (!netdev) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_alloc_etherdev;
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