Myrinet 10Gb odd behavior

[aurfalien]

Forgot to mention my loader.conf;

if_mxge_load="YES"
mxge_ethp_z8e_load="YES"
mxge_eth_z8e_load="YES"
mxge_rss_ethp_z8e_load="YES"
mxge_rss_eth_z8e_load="YES"


I blindly added these w/o thinking what they do.

Should I simply only load the first line?

- aurf


On Aug 16, 2013, at 8:18 AM, aurfalien wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been suspecting my NIC is not up to par and notice this in the logs every few minutes;
> 
> Aug 16 08:05:06 prometheus kernel: mxge0: slice 0 struck? ring state:
> Aug 16 08:05:06 prometheus kernel: mxge0: tx.req=1914503981 tx.done=1914503810, tx.queue_active=0
> Aug 16 08:05:06 prometheus kernel: mxge0: tx.activate=0 tx.deactivate=0
> Aug 16 08:05:06 prometheus kernel: mxge0: pkt_done=1824019832 fw=1824019931
> Aug 16 08:05:06 prometheus kernel: mxge0: Watchdog reset!
> Aug 16 08:05:06 prometheus kernel: mxge0: NIC did not reboot, not resetting
> 
> Could tis be effecting throughput?
> 
> My card is a Myri-10G-PCIE-8A
> 
> I did install the Myrinet dev tools for FreeBSD and ran myri_info which yields;
> 
> pci-dev at 05:00.0 vendor:product(rev)=14c1:0008(00)
> 	behind bridge root-port: 00:03.0 8086:3c08 (x8.1/x16.3)
> Myri-10G-PCIE-8A -- Link x8
>   EEPROM String-spec:
> 	MAC=00:60:dd:45:73:23
> 	SN=413665
> 	PWR=100
> 	PC=10G-PCIE-8A-R
> 	PN=09-03852
> 	XFI=AEL1010
> 	TAG=ze_tools-1_4_45
> 
>   EEPROM MCP, PRESENT, length = 103384, crc=0x119daf46
> 	ETHZ::1.4.45 2009/08/22 18:57:06 self extracting firmware
> 	Bundle: exec_len=72144, PCI-ROM-len = 31232
>   Running MCP:
> 	ETH ::1.4.55 -P- 2012/04/21 01:48:34 myri10ge firmware
> 
> Any insights are appreciated.
> 
> - aurf