Re: [E1000-devel] TX Unit hang with Intel Pro/1000 (82541PI) (e1000) driver on Firewall/NAT machine. Help needed

2009-10-09 Thread Svavar Örn Eysteinsson
On 8.10.2009, at 23:18, Graham, David wrote: > Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote: >> I installed the new driver with your procedures below, and issued a >> "modprobe e1000 TxDescriptorStep=4,4,4 >> My dmesg logs finally showed parameters : > Good. I don't follow a lot of the network manager messages, b

Re: [E1000-devel] TX Unit hang with Intel Pro/1000 (82541PI) (e1000) driver on Firewall/NAT machine. Help needed

2009-10-09 Thread Graham, David
Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote: > > The Tx Unit hang messages don't log anymore in my logs. So the TX hang > issue is gone I think. This is good news to me. > After I execute my firewall script I tell my friend to download from > my FTP server. > Then some minutes later suddenly these messages pops

[E1000-devel] behaviour question for igb on nehalem box

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Friesen
Hi all, I've got some general questions around the expected behaviour of the 82576 igb net device. (On a dual quad-core Nehalem box, if it matters.) As a caveat, the box is running Centos 5.3 with their 2.6.18 kernel. It's using the 1.3.16-k2 igb driver though, which looks to be the one from ma

Re: [E1000-devel] behaviour question for igb on nehalem box

2009-10-09 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Chris Friesen wrote: > I've got some general questions around the expected behaviour of the > 82576 igb net device. (On a dual quad-core Nehalem box, if it matters.) > > As a caveat, the box is running Centos 5.3 with their 2.6.18 kernel. > It's using the 1.3.16-k2 igb driver

Re: [E1000-devel] behaviour question for igb on nehalem box

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Friesen
On 10/09/2009 02:22 PM, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Chris Friesen wrote: >> I've got some general questions around the expected behaviour of the >> 82576 igb net device. (On a dual quad-core Nehalem box, if it matters.) > the hardware you have only supports 8 > queues (rx and

Re: [E1000-devel] behaviour question for igb on nehalem box

2009-10-09 Thread Alexander Duyck
Chris Friesen wrote: > On 10/09/2009 02:22 PM, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Chris Friesen wrote: >>> I've got some general questions around the expected behaviour of the >>> 82576 igb net device. (On a dual quad-core Nehalem box, if it matters.) > >> the hardware you have only

Re: [E1000-devel] behaviour question for igb on nehalem box

2009-10-09 Thread Alexander Duyck
Alexander Duyck wrote: > Chris Friesen wrote: >> On 10/09/2009 02:22 PM, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: >>> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Chris Friesen wrote: I've got some general questions around the expected behaviour of the 82576 igb net device. (On a dual quad-core Nehalem box, if it matters.) >>>