[OmniOS-discuss] ixgbe: breaking aggr on 10GbE X540-T2

[Stephan Budach]

Am 18.01.17 um 17:38 schrieb Stephan Budach:
> Am 18.01.17 um 17:32 schrieb Dan McDonald:
>> Generally the X540 has had a good track record.  I brought up the support for this a long time ago, and it worked alright then.  I think Dale has an X540 in-house which works fine too (he should confirm this).
>>
>> Some other things to check:
>>
>> * Is your BIOS set to map the PCI-E space into the low-32 bits only?  That's an illumos limitation.
>>
>> * Do you have other known-working 10GigBaseT chips to try?
>>
>> Dan
>>
> I will check with the BIOS, altough I thought that this option would 
> simply cause PCI adaptors to vanish from the system, if setup that way.
> Actually, I have been going with Intel all the time and it has been up 
> to the X540 in 10GbE setups only, when I ever startet to experience 
> issues at all, so Intel has been a natural choice for me ever… ;)
>
> Stephan
I just checked the BIOS of my new Supermicros and I think that this is 
the BIOS option you were referring to…

Above 4G Decoding: DISABLED

So, this should be right, shouldn't it?

Stephan
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