On 10/15/15, 11:30 AM, "Alexander Duyck" <alexander.duyck at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 10/15/2015 07:46 AM, Alex Forster wrote: >> On 10/13/15, 4:34 PM, "Alexander Duyck" <alexander.duyck at gmail.com> >>wrote: >> >>> If you are using Intel's out-of-tree ixgbe driver I believe the module >>> parameters are comma separated with one index per port. So if you have >>> two ports you should be passing "allow_unsupported_sfp=1,1", and for 4 >>> you would need four '1's. >> >> This seemed very promising. I compiled and installed the out of tree >>ixgbe >> driver and set the option in /etc/modprobe.d/ixgbe.conf. dmesg shows all >> eight "allow_unsupported_sfp enabled" messages but the last four ports >> still error out with the unsupported SFP message when running the tests. >> >> Before I start arbitrarily trying to patch out parts of the SFP >> verification code in ixgbe, are there any other tips I should know? > >Can you send me the command you used to load the module, and the exact >number of ixgbe ports you have in the system? With that I could then >verify that the command was entered correctly as it is possible there >could still be an issue in the way the command was entered. > >One other possibility is that when the driver loads each load counts as >an instance in the module parameter array. So if for example you unbind >the driver on one port and then later rebind it you will have consumed >one of the values in the array. Do it enough times and you exceed the >bounds of the array as you entered it and it will simply use the default >value of 0. > >Also the output of "ethtool -i <ethX>" would be useful to verify that >you have the out-of-tree driver loaded and not the in kernel. > >- Alex > Er, let me try that again. https://gist.github.com/AlexForster/f5372c5b60153d278089 Alex Forster
