Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:14:52 +0100 From: Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Leon_Me=DFner?= <l.messner@physik.tu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ixgbe(4) and "Could not setup receive structures" Message-ID: <C88F9411-B468-49C2-B707-98B828B851ED@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110414130540.GD9116@emmi.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de> References: <20110414130540.GD9116@emmi.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de>
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On Apr 14, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Leon Me=DFner wrote: > Hi, >=20 > 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. >=20 > # ifconfig ix0 mtu 9198 >=20 > I then get the following error:=20 >=20 > # tail -n 1 /var/log/messages > Apr 14 12:48:43 siloneu kernel: ix0: Could not setup receive = structures >=20 > 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: >=20 > = http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-October/059541.html= >=20 > # cat ~/patches/ixgbe.num_queues_to_4.patch=20 > --- /root/.vimbackup/ixgbe.c~ 2011-04-12 22:14:27.000000000 +0000 > +++ sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.c 2011-04-12 22:14:27.000000000 +0000 > @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ TUNABLE_INT("hw.ixgbe.hdr_split", &ixgbe > * number of cpus. Each queue is a pair > * of RX and TX rings with a msix vector > */ > -static int ixgbe_num_queues =3D 0; > +static int ixgbe_num_queues =3D 4; > TUNABLE_INT("hw.ixgbe.num_queues", &ixgbe_num_queues); >=20 > /* >=20 > _______________________________________________ > 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 ? : kern.ipc.nmbjumbo16 kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9 kern.ipc.nmbclusters Regards, Nikolay
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