Hi, Todd and Don:
Thanks for your prompt and helpful responses regarding our problem. I can
certainly appreciate your position: "We're not able to test every SFI
module..." The number of possible configurations seems staggering.
After some discussion with the BB&T team, our conclusion is not to use an
untested device driver configured to "allow_unsupported_sfp" in our production
Oracle servers. We'd like to replace the current SFPs and/or 10GB fiber NICs
with those which will work with off-the-shelf device drivers that are shipped
as part of the official RHEL 6.5 release.
Do you have any suggestions for replacement hardware or contact information for
a sales rep?
Thanks a bunch!
Bill Yoder
wyo...@bbandt.com<mailto:wyo...@bbandt.com>
3200 Beechleaf Court, Suite 300
Raleigh, NC 27604-1085
919-745-5733
-----Original Message-----
From: Fujinaka, Todd [mailto:todd.fujin...@intel.com]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 5:31 PM
To: Yoder, William; e1000-de...@lists.sf.net<mailto:e1000-de...@lists.sf.net>
Subject: RE: Unable to use 10GB NIC cards
You have to fix these in the reverse order. First, compile the LATEST driver,
which is 3.19.1, not 3.18.7. It's available on e1000.sourceforge.net. That
should resolve the build issue.
Second, use the module parameter allow_unsupported_sfp=1,1 when you load the
driver, and this may work. We're not able to test every SFI module and that's
why the warning is present. There are modules that fit in the cage that don't
even follow the SFI spec so we have the check to show if the module is one that
we know to work.
I hope that helps.
Todd Fujinaka
Software Application Engineer
Networking Division (ND)
Intel Corporation
todd.fujin...@intel.com<mailto:todd.fujin...@intel.com>
(503) 712-4565
-----Original Message-----
From: Skidmore, Donald C [mailto:donald.c.skidm...@intel.com]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 5:21 PM
To: Yoder, William; e1000-de...@lists.sf.net<mailto:e1000-de...@lists.sf.net>
Subject: RE: Unable to use 10GB NIC cards
Hey Bill,
The reason the your 10G adapters aren't getting recognized is because you have
undefined SFP+ modules in the cage.
0000:07:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 ixgbe 0000:07:00.0: failed to load
because an unsupported SFP+ module type was detected.
ixgbe 0000:07:00.0: Reload the driver after installing a supported module.
Basically this means that you're using SPF+ modules we haven't tested will so
we don't know how to initialize them. You might what to pull a new driver from
source forge and see if they are supported there. There is also an unsupported
module option on that driver. In might help you but it only really enables
support for un-branded SFP+ module that we recognize (i.e. we at least know
they won't harm the device, but not necessarily work) but haven't tested.
As for building the driver we don't control what Redhat/Oracle back ports from
kernel.org into their driver. You should talk to them if you want to get it to
work. Another option would be to use the Source Forge driver like I mentioned
above, the latest driver should build in your environment since it is basically
the kernel.org driver with kcompat code. We control that driver much like the
kernel.org driver. :)
Thanks,
-Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidm...@intel.com<mailto:donald.c.skidm...@intel.com>>
-----Original Message-----
From: Yoder, William [mailto:wyo...@bbandt.com]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 1:20 PM
To: e1000-de...@lists.sf.net<mailto:e1000-de...@lists.sf.net>
Subject: [E1000-devel] Unable to use 10GB NIC cards
Hi, Folks:
We'd like to use 10GB interfaces to enable fast interconnects between two
Oracle servers. However, we've hit a couple problems as follows:
Date: 02/24/2014
Problem statement: Cannot access either of a pair of 10GB NIC Fiber cards with
SFPs attached.
Machine: HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8
Kernel: RHEL 6.5 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64
Driver:
/lib/modules/2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.ko
Problem: I cannot get these cards to be recognized by the kernel.
Error Message: From /var/log/dmesg
ixgbe: Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network Driver - version 3.15.1-k
ixgbe: Copyright (c) 1999-2013 Intel Corporation.
alloc irq_desc for 26 on node 0
alloc kstat_irqs on node 0
alloc irq_2_iommu on node 0
ixgbe 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 26 (level, low) -> IRQ 26 ixgbe
0000:07:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 ixgbe 0000:07:00.0: failed to load
because an unsupported SFP+ module type was detected.
ixgbe 0000:07:00.0: Reload the driver after installing a supported module.
ixgbe 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
Problem #2 Statement: We cannot build a fresh version of ixgbe kernel module.
Build environment: gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4) Support files:
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64/
Error messages are of this form:
# cd ixgbe-3.18.7/src
# make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64/build
SUBDIRS=/root/ixgbe-3.18.7src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64'
CC [M] /root/ixgbe-3.18.7/src/ixgbe_main.o
In file included from /root/ixgbe-3.18.7/src/ixgbe_osdep.h:41,
from /root/ixgbe-3.18.7/src/ixgbe_type.h:69,
from /root/ixgbe-3.18.7/src/ixgbe_dcb.h:32,
from /root/ixgbe-3.18.7/src/ixgbe.h:51,
from /root/ixgbe-3.18.7/src/ixgbe_main.c:54:
/root/ixgbe-3.18.7/src/kcompat.h:3491: error: conflicting types for
ânetdev_feaures_tâ
include/linux/netdevice.h:854: note: previous declaration of ânetdev_features_t
was here
It probably shouldn't be necessary to build the kernel driver at all. However,
we're unable to get the stock RHEL driver to work. Your perspective would be
appreciated.
Thanks!
Bill Yoder
wyo...@bbandt.com<mailto:wyo...@bbandt.com<mailto:wyo...@bbandt.com%3cmailto:wyo...@bbandt.com>>
3200 Beechleaf Court, Suite 300
Raleigh, NC 27604-1085
919-745-5733
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