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Date:      Fri, 6 Jul 2018 06:41:53 +0000
From:      "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com>
To:        "np@FreeBSD.org" <np@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Giuseppe Lettieri <g.lettieri@iet.unipi.it>
Subject:   Re: netmap & chelsio
Message-ID:  <0199F257-F9D2-41D0-B4F9-26FBA1607F61@netapp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180705154710.GA3353@ox>
References:  <94019926-B14F-47AB-8AD9-C01B4A0E199F@netapp.com> <20180705154710.GA3353@ox>

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Hi,

On 2018-7-5, at 17:47, np@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Set hw.cxgbe.fl_pktshift=3D0 in loader.conf to stop the chip from =
doing
> this.  See cxgbe(4) for details on the knob.  It's a historic
> optimization that doesn't seem to matter on modern CPUs, so the driver
> default should probably be 0 instead of 2.

thanks, I must have missed this in the man page.

Looking at this in detail now, I wonder if there are other loader =
settings that should be set for netmap use, such as =
hw.cxgbe.buffer_packing=3D0 and/or hw.cxgbe.allow_mbufs_in_cluster=3D0?

Thanks,
Lars

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