----- Original Message ----- >Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:01:05 +0800 >From: Evan Yan <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [driver-discuss] How to make nxge interface consume more than 2 > MSI-X interrupts? > > >Hi there, > >To verify a bug, I need some device consuming more than 2 MSI-X >interrupts. I was told that nxge nic card is of that type. > >I have a X4200 M2 box with a nxge card installed, and another T5120 >sparc box with integrated nxge interface. I have added "set >ddi_msix_alloc_limit=8" in /etc/system for the two boxes, and added "set >pcplusmp:apic_msix_max=8", "set pcplusmp:apic_multi_msi_max=8" for the >x86 box. However the behavior is not as expected. In the x86 box, the >two nxge instances allocated 2 MSI interrupts for each. In the sparc >box, the two nxge instances allocated 2 MSI-X interrupts. > >Did I miss something? How to make them allocate more than 2 MSI-X >interrupts? >
Which type of nxge card did you use ? 10G or 1G ? For 1G nxge cards, it allocates 2 interrupts per port. It is right behavior. -masa _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
