Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Thu Dec 5 06:16:08 UTC 2013


Hi Jack,

On 12/04/13 10:21, Jack Vogel wrote:
> Yes, the ixv code was specifically written to work in a guest with SRIOV, however
> our internal testing did not use DHCP, what if you assign it an address, will it
> work then?

Hard-coding an IP address doesn't work either.  Or rather, I can assign it an
address, but it continues to not pass packets.

Are there any diagnostic tunables/sysctls I should try turning on?  Since this
is in EC2 I'm unfortunately limited to "printf-style" debugging.

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