On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Guest, Simon
<Simon.Guest@...> wrote:
> I have managed to build the qlxgb 10G Ethernet driver from FreeBSD 9
>
> for FreeNAS. I have tested it over a few days, and all seems OK.
Awesome, thanks Simon! It looks good.
Josh incorporated it into the build and it'll be in the next 8.2-BETA :)
Cheers,
-matt
> I attach two patches:
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> - freebsd-qlxgb.patch, to be dropped into the FreeNAS patches
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> directory
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> - nanobsd-qlxgb.patch, to patch the nanobsd config files (pretty
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> trivial)
>
>
>
> With these patches, FreeNAS 8.0.4 RELEASE p1 builds cleanly (at least,
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> past the kernel and driver stuff, as far as where Python is required,
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> which wasn't installed on my build machine).
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>
>
> Following building this, I copied the driver if_qlxgb.ko into
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> /boot/kernel on my production FreeNAS box. The driver README lists
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> some sysctls which need to be set:
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>
>
> kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9=262144
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> net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=262144
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> net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=16384
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> kern.ipc.nmbclusters=1000000
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> kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=2097152
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> net.inet.tcp.recvspace=131072
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> net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=262144
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> net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536
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>
>
> I set these in the FreeNAS web GUI.
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>
>
> Then, to load the driver at boot time, I added a tunable in the web GUI:
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> variable: if_qlxgb_load
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> value: YES
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>
>
> Once this is done, and the machine rebooted, I was able to add the
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> interface using the web GUI.
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>
>
> If you are inclined to put this patch into an upcoming release of
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> FreeNAS, that would be excellent.
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>
>
> cheers,
>
> Simon
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>
>
>
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