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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hallo Alasdair,<br><br>Thanks for the answer!<br><br>Will try.<br><br>Regards,<br><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: alasdair@lumsden.eu<br>To: oi-dev@openindiana.org<br>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:35:04 +0000<br>Subject: Re: [oi-dev] flowcontrol 10Gbe intel x520þ<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Randy,<div><br></div><div>Your best bet is to mail the illumos mailing list - none of the illumos developers hang out on the oi-dev mailing list, this list is for distribution work (i.e. packaging etc).</div><div><br></div><div>To test the patch on that issue, you'd have to rebuild illumos-gate and install the resulting packages.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Alasdair<br><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From: sim.ple@live.nl<br>To: oi-dev@openindiana.org<br>Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 23:44:48 +0200<br>Subject: Re: [oi-dev] flowcontrol 10Gbe intel x520þ<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><h2><span style="font-weight:normal;"> </span></h2><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">I found the following issue regarding this nic.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">Can anyone tell me if the fix in this document has been implemented yet or what the status is</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">It seems to solve my problem (if it is a stable fix).</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">If somebody could give me a short mini howto on implementing / testing this?</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">https://www.illumos.org/issues/4063</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">Regards,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">R</span></div><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From: sim.ple@live.nl<br>To: oi-dev@openindiana.org<br>Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 12:25:35 +0200<br>Subject: [oi-dev] flowcontrol 10Gbe intel x520þ<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hi all,</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">I hope this is readable .</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Using an OI 151a7</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">I'm trying to turn off flowcontroll on an Intel X520-DA2 10Gbe nic</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">I have put </div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">flow_control = 0; </div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">in /kernel/drv/ixgbe.conf </div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">and also done:</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">dladm set-linkprop -p flowctrl=no ixgbe0</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">results after reboot:</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">dladm show-ether -x ixgbe0</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">LINK PTYPE STATE AUTO SPEED-DUPLEX PAUSE</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">ixgbe1 current up yes 10G-f bi</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- capable -- yes 1G-f,100M-f bi</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- adv -- yes 1G-f bi</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- peeradv -- no -- none</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">==============================================================</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">dladm show-linkprop -p flowctrl ixgbe0</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE DEFAULT POSSIBLE</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">ixgbe0 flowctrl rw no no no,tx,rx,bi</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">===============================================================</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">The second output seems ok, but the first puzzles me. Als the dladm command doesn't show any immediate effect, I think it doesn't work.</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">question on: can somebody clarify to me if flowcontrol is now turned off or not? And if not, what do I have to do to turn it off?</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">I know that there were issues with the ixgbe driver in OI151a7, can this have something todo with that? If this is solved in a9, how would I go about adding the a9 driver to this a7 system (if thats's possible).</div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height:22.719999313354492px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Calibri;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Greetings,</div> </div>
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