>-----Original Message----- >From: netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org] >On Behalf Of Fischer, Anna >Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:33 AM >To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; net...@vger.kernel.org >Subject: ixgbe and SRIOV failure in driver? > >I am running a system with 3 Intel NICs. Two of them are 82598 devices, >and one is a SRIOV capable 82599. > >All devices use the ixgbe driver. What happens (I believe) now is that >when the driver loads at first, it sees the 82598 first (because of its >position in the PCI tree) and then it says "Device not IOV capable - >switching off IOV." > >So then it switches into non-IOV mode, and I can never enable SRIOV on >my 82599, because the driver does not enable it any more for further >devices. > >So to get around this issue, I tried to use pciback.hide to hide the >82598 devices from the OS. That way I was hoping that the driver would >switch on SRIOV on my 82599. However, then I got a kernel panic on boot >(see below). > >I am running Xen 4 and the Dom0 kernel is a 2.6.31 kernel.
The ixgbe driver included with the 2.6.31 kernel does not support SR-IOV. Where did you get the driver that does? Please run ethtool -i <ethx> and post the results. - Greg Rose Intel Corp. Lan Access Division ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
