ixgbe interface micro stalls / slow responses

[Jack Vogel]

I don't know what to make of it right now, i would suggest going minimal,
meaning go to a single
queue and see what the behavior is.

Jack


2012/3/12 Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk>

> **
> Looks like nmbclusters sysctl changes need to loader.conf so they are
> available early enough for the driver.
>
> We haven't rebooted to test that yet as the machine is under so little
> network load I wouldn't expect raising it from 1024 to 2048 RX descriptors
> to make any real difference, what do you recon?
>
>     Regards
>     Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com>
> *To:* Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
> *Cc:* Коньков Евгений <kes-kes at yandex.ru> ; freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> *Sent:* Monday, March 12, 2012 8:11 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Re[2]: ixgbe interface micro stalls / slow responses
>
> Have you gotten rid of the rx descriptors exceeded problem?
>
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