nmbclusters: how do we want to fix this for 8.3 ?

[Arnaud Lacombe]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Using igb and/or ixgbe on a reasonably powered server requires 1K mbuf
> clusters per MSIX vector,
> that's how many are in a ring. Either driver will configure 8 queues on a
> system with that many or more
> cores, so 8K clusters per port...
>
> My test engineer has a system with 2 igb ports, and 2 10G ixgbe, this is
> hardly heavy duty, and yet this
> exceeds the default mbuf pool on the installed kernel (1024 + maxusers *
> 64).
>
> Now, this can be immediately fixed by a sysadmin after that first boot, but
> it does result in the second
> driver that gets started to complain about inadequate buffers.
>
> I think the default calculation is dated and should be changed, but am not
> sure the best way, so are
> there suggestions/opinions about this, and might we get it fixed before 8.3
> is baked?
>
get rid of the limit once and for all, it is pointless.

 - Arnaud