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Date:      Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:29:06 +0200
From:      Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ix? / Intel(R) PRO/10GbE
Message-ID:  <E1U5WmA-000Or3-TL@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201EA7586@ltcfiswmsgmb21>
References:  <E1U5Hg8-0007wo-5r@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>  <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201EA7586@ltcfiswmsgmb21>

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> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> 
> > I finally got a 10G card that is recognized by FreeBSD (9.1-stable):
> > ...
> > ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver, Version - 2.4.8> port
> > 0xecc0-0xecdf mem 0xd9e80000-0xd9efffff,0xd9ff8000-0xd9ffbfff irq 40 at d=evice
> > 0.0 on pci4
> > ix0: Using MSIX interrupts with 9 vectors
> > ix0: RX Descriptors exceed system mbuf max, using default instead!
>
> From reading sys/dev/ixgbe/README:
> 
> echo "kern.ipc.nmbclusters=262144" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
> echo "kern.ipc.nmbjumbop=262144" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
> reboot
> --
> Devin
>

Hi Devin,
keep forgetting, 'may the source be with you' :-)

but this only works if the driver is loaded after
the sysctl is executed!
it's better to put it in /boot/loader.conf

thanks,
	danny





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