----- Original Message ----- >Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:45:39 +0800 >From: Evan Yan <evan....@sun.com> >Subject: Re: [driver-discuss] How to make nxge interface consume more than 2 > MSI-X interrupts? >To: Masa Murayama <khf04...@nifty.ne.jp> >Cc: driver-discuss@opensolaris.org, Xiu-Yan Wang <xiuyan.w...@sun.com> > > >Hi Masa, > >Thanks for reply. > >Is there anyway I can tell it's a 10G or 1G? like any sign on the card >or any variable's value during the driver attach? > >Thanks, >-Evan
It depends on the specification of the nic card product. In my experience, if the pci express card has 4 ports, it is 1Gbps ethernet version of nxge card. Or, please check cap_10gfdx in the output of kstat -m nxge. -masa > >Masa Murayama wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >>> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:01:05 +0800 >>> From: Evan Yan <evan....@sun.com> >>> To: driver-discuss@opensolaris.org >>> Subject: [driver-discuss] How to make nxge interface consume more than 2 >>> MSI-X interrupts? >>> >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> To verify a bug, I need some device consuming more than 2 MSI-X >>> interrupts. I was told that nxge nic card is of that type. >>> >>> I have a X4200 M2 box with a nxge card installed, and another T5120 >>> sparc box with integrated nxge interface. I have added "set >>> ddi_msix_alloc_limit=8" in /etc/system for the two boxes, and added "set >>> pcplusmp:apic_msix_max=8", "set pcplusmp:apic_multi_msi_max=8" for the >>> x86 box. However the behavior is not as expected. In the x86 box, the >>> two nxge instances allocated 2 MSI interrupts for each. In the sparc >>> box, the two nxge instances allocated 2 MSI-X interrupts. >>> >>> Did I miss something? How to make them allocate more than 2 MSI-X >>> interrupts? >>> >>> >> >> Which type of nxge card did you use ? 10G or 1G ? >> >> For 1G nxge cards, it allocates 2 interrupts per port. It is >> right behavior. >> >> -masa >> _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
