Re: Bogus igb1: Could not setup receive structures in 8-STABLE

2010-10-15 Thread Jack Vogel
The number of MSIX vectors it uses is the number of queues PLUS one vector for link. I would use two or four rather than 3, but it should be ok with that if that's what you wish. Jack On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Terry Kennedy te...@tmk.com wrote: The problem is mbuf resources, the

Re: Bogus igb1: Could not setup receive structures in 8-STABLE

2010-10-14 Thread Jack Vogel
The problem is mbuf resources, the driver is autoconfiguring the number of queues based on the number of cores, on newer systems with lots of them this is outstripping the mbuf resource pool. I have decided to hard limit the queues to 8, you can fix the number manually by searching for num_queues

Re: Bogus igb1: Could not setup receive structures in 8-STABLE

2010-10-14 Thread Terry Kennedy
The problem is mbuf resources, the driver is autoconfiguring the number of queues based on the number of cores, on newer systems with lots of them this is outstripping the mbuf resource pool. That would make sense, as these systems have 16 cores (dual E5520's). I have decided to hard limit