I have several OpenIndiana b147 boxes serving as a NAS heads with a dual port Myricom 10G NIC in each head.
The 10G network has been used for testing and we've been gathering performance numbers. We're ready to enable jumbo frames but I don't see a /kernel/drv/myri10ge.conf file in which to make the changes. Anyone know why the file might be missing? I don't see it on any of the OI boxes I've checked. Can anyone recommend network tuning parameters that we should consider using for a NAS box serving as an ISCSI target with dual 10g interfaces for 25 ESX servers (1G Interfaces)? Myricom has several recommendations: /etc/system: set ddi_msix_alloc_limit=8 set pcplusmp:apic_multi_msi_max=8 set pcplusmp:apic_msix_max=8 set pcplusmp:apic_intr_policy=1 /etc/kernel/myri10ge.conf: myri10ge_bigbufs_initial=4096; myri10ge_bigbufs_max=32768; Might be helpful: myri10ge_lro=1; myri10ge_lro_max_aggr=2; For Low Latency: myri10ge_use_msix=0; myri10ge_intr_coal_delay=0; Any opinions on: myri10ge_max_slices=1; There are 20-odd ESX servers accessing this host at the same time- would additional slices be useful? Is there any consensus on whether a low latency or high bandwidth configuration would be more useful for this sort of environment? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, -Don -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list networking-discuss@opensolaris.org
