[OmniOS-discuss] E5-2600 v3 Haswell

[Ian Collins]

Dan McDonald wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Jon Hull <jhull at jncs.com> wrote:
>
>> The board has 1g nics and those worked fine (igb). I was supposed to get a 10g version of the board but my boss sold it before I had a chance to test it out.
> The "10g" may actually be a 40g with 4x 10G ports.  If it's the part I'm thinking about, it's the "i40e", which illumos does not yet support.  Do you know what 1GigE "igb" part it is?  Is it I350, or something newer?

It's the i350.

> This is a dual-socket board, you said?  I'd be interested to know if you see any odd latencies - I've seen {Sandy,Ivy} Bridge-E boards occasionally exhibit odd latencies with 10GigE, but it was very difficult to characterize and reproduce.

Fortunately that are still using X540 on these boards.

How have these latencies shown up?  I have a number of X9 boards with 
X540 10GE on board and I haven't notices anything untoward.

-- 
Ian.