Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Shtorm
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Mon Jul 5 11:58:45 UTC 2010
I just got Supermicro SuperServer 5016I-MRF server with two 82574L
controllers on board. According to specs this controller can do two
msi-x vectors for tx and rx, but only one tx-rx pair is used on
8.1-prerelease.
uname -a
FreeBSD router 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Jun 29
00:42:32 UTC 2010 root at releng_8:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROUTER amd64
Here is pciconf
em0 at pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10d315d9 chip=0x10d38086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
em1 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10d315d9 chip=0x10d38086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
Checking procstat shows 5 interrupts per interface
procstat -at | grep em\[01\]
0 100035 kernel em0 rxq 0 16 sleep -
0 100037 kernel em0 txq 6 16 sleep -
0 100039 kernel em0 rxq 0 16 sleep -
0 100041 kernel em0 txq 0 16 sleep -
0 100044 kernel em1 rxq 0 16 sleep -
0 100046 kernel em1 txq 1 16 sleep -
0 100048 kernel em1 rxq 0 16 sleep -
0 100050 kernel em1 txq 0 16 sleep -
11 100034 intr irq256: em0 7 16 wait -
11 100036 intr irq257: em0 0 16 wait -
11 100038 intr irq258: em0 0 16 wait -
11 100040 intr irq259: em0 0 16 wait -
11 100042 intr irq260: em0 3 16 wait -
11 100043 intr irq261: em1 4 16 wait -
11 100045 intr irq262: em1 5 16 wait -
11 100047 intr irq263: em1 0 16 wait -
11 100049 intr irq264: em1 0 16 wait -
11 100051 intr irq265: em1 2 16 wait -
but vmstat -i shows only one pair is used
%vmstat -i
interrupt total rate
irq1: atkbd0 391 0
irq18: ehci0 uhci5 2 0
irq19: uhci2 uhci4 27 0
irq23: uhci3 ehci1 8463 0
cpu0: timer 107412943 7864
irq256: em0 93311951 6832
irq257: em0 90479067 6624
irq260: em0 2 0
irq261: em1 92966894 6806
irq262: em1 80298240 5879
irq265: em1 1 0
cpu1: timer 107412607 7864
cpu2: timer 107412785 7864
cpu3: timer 107412830 7864
cpu5: timer 107413210 7864
cpu4: timer 107413389 7864
cpu7: timer 107407337 7864
cpu6: timer 107413132 7864
Total 1216363271 89058
Here is my loader.conf
%cat /boot/loader.conf | grep em
if_em_load=YES
hw.em.rxd=4096
hw.em.txd=4096
hw.em.tx_int_delay=512
hw.em.rx_int_delay=512
hw.em.tx_abs_int_delay=1024
hw.em.rx_abs_int_delay=1024
hw.em.enable_msix=1
hw.em.msix_queues=2
hw.em.rx_process_limit=100
hw.em.fc_setting=0
Is it ever possible to activate second tx-rx pair on this card?
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