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Date:      Mon, 18 Apr 2016 08:58:27 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>, Meny Yossefi <menyy@mellanox.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org" <freebsd-infiniband@freebsd.org>, Yuval Bason <yuvalba@mellanox.com>
Subject:   Re: How to force IB cards to come up in IB mode?
Message-ID:  <57148593.6090309@selasky.org>
In-Reply-To: <0DE8164F-FB16-40E0-A512-F233658C52A0@postgresql.org>
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On 04/17/16 00:33, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 16 Apr 2016, at 15:55, Meny Yossefi <menyy@mellanox.com> wrote:
>> Hi Justin,
>>
>> It seems as the pre-boot configuration didn't work.
>>
>> loader.conf doesn't work on all sysctl params AFAIK.
>
> The solution in this case turned out to be super simple... I was
> just using the wrong file. :D
>
> It should have been /etc/sysctl.conf for the settings.  Adding this
> in there worked for the initial port mode setup:
>
>    # Ensure the IB card is in IB mode
>    sys.device.mlx4_core0.mlx4_port1="ib"
>    sys.device.mlx4_core0.mlx4_port2="ib"
>
> Apologies for the noise. ;)
>

No problem. Glad to read you figured it out. Maybe it will help somebody 
else.

--HPS






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