[E1000-devel] 82599 RSS double VLAN capability

2013-09-07 Thread Steve O'Brien
to be bits to activate global double VLAN, but I wanted to know if anyone has gotten this to work and how. Thanks, Steve O'Brien -- Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover th

Re: [E1000-devel] 82599 RSS double VLAN capability

2013-09-08 Thread Steve O'Brien
Hi again, By reviewing the 82599 Datasheet I did get double VLAN to work, i.e. RSS into multiple Rx queues. I set the IXGBE_DMATXCTL_GDV bit and set the Extended VLAN bit in the IXGBE_CTRL_EXT register and the RSS is working. Steve O'Brien From: Steve O'Brien Sent: Saturday, Se

[E1000-devel] Round-robin Flow Director?

2011-07-14 Thread Steve O'Brien
Hello, I'm working with the ixgbe drivers to an Intel 82599 based NIC. I have a situation where I would like to use RSS, but want round-robin distribution of the receive frames. (Because my mobile network primarily uses only a few network elements, filtering sends 95% of the packets to one queu

Re: [E1000-devel] Round-robin Flow Director?

2011-07-18 Thread Steve O'Brien
...@intel.com] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:43 AM To: Steve O'Brien; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] Round-robin Flow Director? Hi Steve, If RSS isn't giving you the spread you need you might want to try setting up perfect filters. That way you could divide flow

Re: [E1000-devel] Round-robin Flow Director?

2011-07-18 Thread Steve O'Brien
Don, Thanks again! Steve -Original Message- From: Skidmore, Donald C [mailto:donald.c.skidm...@intel.com] Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 9:44 PM To: Steve O'Brien; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] Round-robin Flow Director? Hey Steve, RSS hash produce

[E1000-devel] VFS vs MTU

2012-01-26 Thread Steve O'Brien
Oh, I hope this isn't a dumb question, but I can't set the MTU to 4096 using SR-IOV. I'm using the X520-SR2 dual 82599 NIC with RedHat 6.0. I use 'modprobe ixgbe max_vfs=4,4`, then try to increase the MTU using 'ifconfig eth2 mtu 4096', gives me the response `SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument`. Th

Re: [E1000-devel] VFS vs MTU

2012-01-30 Thread Steve O'Brien
Has anyone else encountered this problem? Sorry, my contact info is: Steve O'Brien obr...@velocent.com Sr. Engineer Velocent Systems -Original Message- From: Steve O'Brien [mailto:obr...@velocent.com] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:00 PM

Re: [E1000-devel] VFS vs MTU

2012-01-30 Thread Steve O'Brien
Greg, Thanks for the reply. Steve -Original Message- From: Rose, Gregory V [mailto:gregory.v.r...@intel.com] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 12:59 PM To: Steve O'Brien; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] VFS vs MTU > -Original Message- >