Hi, On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using igb and/or ixgbe on a reasonably powered server requires 1K mbuf > clusters per MSIX vector, > that's how many are in a ring. Either driver will configure 8 queues on a > system with that many or more > cores, so 8K clusters per port... > > My test engineer has a system with 2 igb ports, and 2 10G ixgbe, this is > hardly heavy duty, and yet this > exceeds the default mbuf pool on the installed kernel (1024 + maxusers * > 64). > > Now, this can be immediately fixed by a sysadmin after that first boot, but > it does result in the second > driver that gets started to complain about inadequate buffers. > > I think the default calculation is dated and should be changed, but am not > sure the best way, so are > there suggestions/opinions about this, and might we get it fixed before 8.3 > is baked? > get rid of the limit once and for all, it is pointless.
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