Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:08:38 -0600 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen) Message-ID: <2BA72819-3004-4FB6-BB4F-5964B41F6B2F@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <201307091158.19381.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <3A359B33-380C-4230-A62C-623765E9376A@jnielsen.net> <201307091158.19381.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Jul 9, 2013, at 9:58 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Monday, September 24, 2012 12:37:30 pm John Nielsen wrote: >> I have a machine running "FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r240887" amd64 with = two=20 > ConnectX (InfiniBand) cards. Relevant bits of dmesg and pciconf -lv = below. The=20 > cards are connected directly to a 10GB Ethernet switch so I need to = run them=20 > in "eth" mode rather than "ib". Unfortunately they come up in "ib" = mode and I=20 > don't know how to change it. >>=20 >> The same hardware works fine under CentOS 6.3, though I need to = manually set=20 > the cards to 'eth' there as well (which I do using a = 'connectx_port_config=20 > script from Mellanox that twiddles the mlx4_port1 entries under /sys = (sysfs).=20 > Under FreeBSD I see these sysctls but I can't set them to 'eth' either = via=20 > /boot/loader.conf or by sysctl after boot, with or without mlxen = and/or mlx4ib=20 > loaded: >> sys.device.mlx4_core0.mlx4_port1: ib >> sys.device.mlx4_core1.mlx4_port1: ib >=20 > So this was just fixed (finally) in HEAD in r253048. You can how use = the > sysctls to change this. I saw the commit. Thanks! I'll give it a try at some point (whenever my = schedule and hardware availability align). JN
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