Intel 4-port ethernet adaptor link aggregation issue

[Barney Cordoba]

You can create your own pipeline with some minor modifications. Why wait months
for the guys who did it wrong to make changes?

BC


________________________________
 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
To: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble at gmail.com>; Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com>; Steve Read <steve.read at netasq.com>; freebsd-net <freebsd-net at freebsd.org> 
Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2013 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: Intel 4-port ethernet adaptor link aggregation issue
 

On 2 August 2013 16:35, Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The stock igb driver binds to all cores, so with multiple igbs you have multiple
> nics binding to the same cores. I suppose that might create issues in a lagg setup.
> Try 1 queue  and/or comment out the bind code.
>

I have thrashed the hell out of 2-port ixgbe and 4-port chelsio
(cxgbe) on 4-core device all with lagg. All is great.

There's apparently some more igb improvements coming in the pipeline. Fear not!


-adrian