Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:36:56 +0000 From: "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com> To: Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Intel XL710 NVM updating and driver version Message-ID: <E36A183E-7BA1-41C7-8F51-16B9F67D23E9@netapp.com> In-Reply-To: <56422520.9000906@multiplay.co.uk> References: <56422520.9000906@multiplay.co.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2015-11-10, at 18:10, Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk> wrote: > > Having spent 30mins searching for the FreeBSD utility to perform said update I'm hitting a dead end so looking for advice on where to find this? No idea. I ended up booting into Linux to flash. > While searching for this I found that the latest driver on Intel's site is 1.4.8 <https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25160/Network-Adapter-Driver-for-PCI-E-40-Gigabit-Network-Connections-under-FreeBSD->, in a file named 1.4.5 <https://downloadcenter.intel.com/downloads/eula/25160/Network-Adapter-Driver-for-PCI-E-40-Gigabit-Network-Connections-under-FreeBSD-?httpDown=https%3A%2F%2Fdownloadmirror.intel.com%2F25160%2Feng%2Fixl-1.4.5.tar.gz>; and reporting 1.4.5 so it looks like the wrong version was uploaded on Intel's download site. Yep, found that too. > The driver in HEAD is only 1.4.3 so the next question is there a reason HEAD is behind? No idea either. If you're running -CURRENT, would you do me a favor and do a netperf run? I fail to get speeds over 5Gb/s, because it seems like TSO/LRO isn't in effect (although enabled). Lars [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQCVAwUBVkIrN9ZcnpRveo1xAQi92wP+Khh89VcaJYoaR0Ez0nHmJ6aIit+BL553 2scOWoS24N/dDzov4Rr7X4VuVBEu5cwvdHZ8ySVVdj2mOgD/GQVImADYZ59GxKoC y66Bop7Cbh+5J+7rH8kN4XcIzyNWwnnSQamhLi59NrbnvHxLvItKI6Znj9E66aFt +cgsysdfcLU= =y7Po -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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