[OmniOS-discuss] SolarFlare SFXGE with OmniOS

[Doug Hughes]

On 9/24/2014 11:07 PM, Dan McDonald wrote:
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> On Sep 24, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Doug Hughes <doug at will.to> wrote:
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>> So far so good. ping tests work successfully with OmniOS r012 and dladm aggr.
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> FYI, 012 isn't officially out yet.  There are more updates and respins.  (bash & mozilla-nss being the biggies.)
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>> will run some real tests soon.
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>> PS - the add-drv command from the solaris postinstall is:
>> add_drv -m '* 0600 root sys' -i '"pciex1924,703" "pciex1924,710" "pciex1924,803" "pciex1924,813"' sfxge
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> Are you thinking this is good enough for upstreaming into illumos-gate, perhaps?  :)
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> Thanks!
> Dan
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I ran an iperf from not a full speed slot. inbound (receiver) was 
3.8gbits, outbound was only 78Mbits.. So far no crashes. That's awesome. 
The outbound is a bit worrisome but could just be a configuration issue.