9.2 ixgbe tx queue hang

[Garrett Wollman]

In article
<CAB2_NwAOmPtZjB03pdDiTK2OvQgqk-tYf83Jq4Ukt9jnZA8CNA at mail.gmail.com>,
csforgeron at gmail.com writes:

>50/27433/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k)

This is going to screw you.  You need to make sure that no NIC driver
ever allocates 9k jumbo pages -- unless you are using one of those
mythical drivers that can't do scatter/gather DMA on receive, which
you don't appear to be.

These failures occur when the driver is trying to replenish its
receive queue, but is unable to allocate three *physically* contiguous
pages of RAM to construct the 9k jumbo cluster (of which the remaining
3k is simply wasted).  This happens on any moderately active server,
once physical memory gets checkerboarded with active single pages,
particularly with ZFS where those pages are wired in kernel memory and
so can't be evicted.

-GAWollman