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Subject: Re: Exposing sysctls for ixgbe
From: hiren panchasara <hiren@FreeBSD.org>
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Any comments?

cheers,
Hiren

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:01 PM, hiren panchasara <hiren@freebsd.org>wrote:

> $ sysctl hw.igb
> hw.igb.rxd: 4096
> hw.igb.txd: 4096
> hw.igb.enable_aim: 1
> hw.igb.enable_msix: 1
> hw.igb.max_interrupt_rate: 8000
> hw.igb.buf_ring_size: 4096
> hw.igb.header_split: 0
> hw.igb.num_queues: 1
> hw.igb.rx_process_limit: 100
> $ sysctl hw.ix
> sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.ix': No such file or directory
>
> I thought it would be nice to have these things exposed. So I copied them
> from igb:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~hiren/ixgbe_sysctls.txt
>
> Changes for if_igb.c is to expose correct auto-tuned value for a running
> system for "hw.igb.num_queues", which is not the case right now.
>
> Thanks to markj@ for help/pointers.
>
> Please let me know if the diffs look okay.
>
> cheers,
> Hiren
>