Dear Developers, I just noticed this funny suggestion from the driver: it is suggesting to move an i40e card around, but in this case the PCI-E slot would need to be in another machine. ;-)
[97788.720326] i40e: Intel(R) 40-10 Gigabit Ethernet Connection Network Driver - version 1.5.25 [97788.720331] i40e: Copyright(c) 2013 - 2016 Intel Corporation. [97788.734005] i40e 0000:01:00.3: fw 4.33.31377 api 1.2 nvm 4.42 0x8000191c 0.0.0 [97788.734009] i40e 0000:01:00.3: The driver for the device detected an older version of the NVM image than expected. Please update the NVM image. [...] [97789.169918] i40e 0000:01:00.3: PCI-Express: Speed 5.0GT/s Width x8 [97789.169923] i40e 0000:01:00.3: PCI-Express bandwidth available for this device may be insufficient for optimal performance. [97789.169926] i40e 0000:01:00.3: Please move the device to a different PCI-e link with more lanes and/or higher transfer rate. [97789.200395] i40e 0000:01:00.3: Features: PF-id[3] VFs: 32 VSIs: 34 QP: 4 RSS FD_ATR FD_SB NTUPLE CloudF VxLAN NVGRE PTP VEPA # lscpu|grep Model Model: 42 Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz (this one has only PCI-e 2.0 links, and the card has only x8) Best Regards, Michał Mirosław ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ 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