Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:46:12 +0200 From: "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org> To: Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Leon_Me=DFner?= <l.messner@physik.tu-berlin.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ixgbe(4) and "Could not setup receive structures" Message-ID: <BANLkTik7SaRhra5QMFM%2BX3L45HTbaYTvrA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <C88F9411-B468-49C2-B707-98B828B851ED@gmail.com> References: <20110414130540.GD9116@emmi.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de> <C88F9411-B468-49C2-B707-98B828B851ED@gmail.com>
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Also, how much memory do you have and what architecture? On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 14, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Leon Me=DFner wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> i tried setting the mtu on one of my ixgbe(4) intel NICs to support >> jumbo frames. This is on a box with RELENG_8 from today. >> >> # ifconfig ix0 mtu 9198 >> >> I then get the following error: >> >> # tail -n 1 /var/log/messages >> Apr 14 12:48:43 siloneu kernel: ix0: Could not setup receive structures >> >> I already tried the following patch because of Jack Vogel's advice given >> in the following thread on -stable in Oct. last year, which still >> produces the same error message and leaves the box unpingable: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-October/059541.ht= ml >> >> # cat ~/patches/ixgbe.num_queues_to_4.patch >> --- /root/.vimbackup/ixgbe.c~ =A0 2011-04-12 22:14:27.000000000 +0000 >> +++ sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.c =A0 =A0 =A0 2011-04-12 22:14:27.000000000 +000= 0 >> @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ TUNABLE_INT("hw.ixgbe.hdr_split", &ixgbe >> =A0* number of cpus. Each queue is a pair >> =A0 =A0* of RX and TX rings with a msix vector >> =A0 =A0 =A0*/ >> =A0 =A0 =A0-static int ixgbe_num_queues =3D 0; >> =A0 =A0 =A0+static int ixgbe_num_queues =3D 4; >> =A0 =A0 =A0 TUNABLE_INT("hw.ixgbe.num_queues", &ixgbe_num_queues); >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0/* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > > Hi, > > Have you tried increasing the following sysctls ? : > > =A0 =A0kern.ipc.nmbjumbo16 > =A0 =A0kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9 > =A0 =A0kern.ipc.nmbclusters > > Regards, > Nikolay > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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