That's really weird. - How are you measuring performance? iperf? - Are you able to put a Ubuntu/other OS directly on the R740 and validate the performance?
We have a lot of X710 with various firmware and I have never seen something like this. On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 2:49 PM Matthew Weiner <mlwei...@lakelandschools.org> wrote: > I'll give that a try after my day ends, just in case it drops the link. I > had a problem before where I changed some offload settings using ethtool > and the links went hard down and the only way I could bring them back up > was a reboot. I'll let you the results after I make the change. > > My kernel is 4.19.0+1 - it's Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer) 8.2 > LTSR. > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:21 PM Jesse Brandeburg < > jesse.brandeb...@intel.com> > wrote: > > > On 3/14/2022 8:28 AM, Kevin Bowling wrote: > > > Fortville (700) has always been a bit of a disaster > > > (https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/331430?explicitVersion=true > ), > > > I'd see if you can press your Intel reps into getting you the 550s or > > > the 800-series NICs for the unnecessary troubles it's a much nicer > > > design. > > > > > > It's surprising they are shipping new cards with that old of a > > > firmware, you should be on 8.50 for the driver you are running > > > ( > > > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/18635/non-volatile-memory-nvm-update-utility-for-intel-ethernet-adapters-700-series-linux.html > > ). > > > Doing the FW update is worth a shot but most issues I've seen have > > > been driver related and you are running a pretty recent driver. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Kevin > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 7:44 AM Matthew Weiner > > > <mlwei...@lakelandschools.org> wrote: > > >> > > >> I'm at my wits end with this, Citrix is stumped, Dell is stumped, and > > with > > >> the supply chain issues the way they are we can't just yank these out > in > > >> favor of X550s. The problem is we have a group of Dell R740s with > X710 > > >> dual-port NICs and the performance is, in a word, awful. Like 5-6 > > megabit > > >> upload and 250 megabit download awful. However, identical server > > hardware > > >> with any other card, be it a Broadcom or an Intel X550T, no issues. > We > > can > > >> get line rate all day long. The latest attempt was swapping the X710 > > for a > > >> newer X710-T2L-t, which performed maybe 5-10 percent better. We've > > tried > > >> three different driver revisions, firmware, BIOS, all the available > > >> Hypervisor updates, it still performs the same. > > >> > > >> The servers in question have X550s on the motherboard mezzanine card > > which > > >> perform fine, and a single dual-port X710 in the PCIe riser. The X710 > > is > > >> set up with an LACP pair trunked with three VLANs tagged across it. > In > > >> this pool we also have servers with X550s on the PCIe cards, and > > >> Broadcoms. All those with an identical configuration perform without > > >> issue, it's only the X710s that show this problem. > > > > Hi Matt, sorry to hear about this problem. Let's poke a bit (please be > > patient with me) and see if we can help you. > > > > Have you followed the steps like located here: > > > > > https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Intel_Ethernet_700_Series_LACP_Configuration > > > > As there are definitely known problems with LACP mode and the driver's > > default settings. > > > > You can try the above workaround and see if it helps. If that does help, > > then there are ways to make the settings get applied by ethtool as the > > system comes up. > > > > Please let us know how it goes. > > > > It would be helpful to know what kernel you're running, just for good > > measure. > > > > PS. You may want to subscribe to e1000-devel as it is currently holding > > your messages because you're not a subscriber, and they have to be > > manually released. > > > > _______________________________________________ > E1000-devel mailing list > E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel > To learn more about Intel Ethernet, visit > https://forums.intel.com/s/topic/0TO0P00000018NbWAI/intel-ethernet > _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel Ethernet, visit https://forums.intel.com/s/topic/0TO0P00000018NbWAI/intel-ethernet
