Re: [smartos-discuss] The dreaded Dell Boardcom NICs

2016-08-11 Thread Ian Collins
On 12/08/16 2:15 pm, Garrett D'Amore wrote: That sounds weird. My first thought was to see if the problem manifests as a receive filter programming problem. If traffic flows when snoop is running but then ceases then its probably a mac address programming problem. Does it emit traffic

Re: [smartos-discuss] The dreaded Dell Boardcom NICs

2016-08-11 Thread Garrett D'Amore
That sounds weird. My first thought was to see if the problem manifests as a receive filter programming problem. If traffic flows when snoop is running but then ceases then its probably a mac address programming problem. Does it emit traffic properly? You can check that by snooping on a

Re: [smartos-discuss] The dreaded Dell Boardcom NICs

2016-08-11 Thread Dave Finster
I recall seeing similar behaviour a while ago (much older platform/box) and it turned out to be an issue with BNX VLAN support for that particular NIC. The specifics escape me, but it resulted in having to run the NICs as access ports and let the switch do the VLAN work. This was with vanilla

[smartos-discuss] The dreaded Dell Boardcom NICs

2016-08-11 Thread Ian Collins
I know this topic keeps popping up on these lists and I usually reply with "fit Intel!" but I'm currently stuck with a new Dell box with embedded Boardcom NICs. Has anyone had any luck with these recently (I'm using the latest platform)? They appear to be half working: the OS manages them,

Re: [smartos-discuss] [developer] NVMe SSDs (Intel DC P3700, P3600) won't show up

2016-08-11 Thread Youzhong Yang
Hi Robert, Thanks for looking into this issue. I tried MSI interrupt type on my own but it didn't work, but I will try your patch again and then report back. I've studied the nvme driver in Solaris 11.3, it seems they do the same thing as Linux - MSI-X first, then MSI, finally FIXED, see

AW: [smartos-discuss] KVM: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 30s

2016-08-11 Thread Kilian Ries
Hi Robert, there are two other KVMs running on the same host, but there comes almost no load from them. CPU cap ist not set. If the KVM does nothing, most of the qemu-processes are near 100% SLP rate (as expected). LAT is very low near 0,0 / 0,1 %. If i fire up prime things change: SLP is