Re: [E1000-devel] i40e: Wrong hint on PCIE2.0 system

[Brandeburg, J. <jes...@in...>]

Thanks for the report, probably not much we can do, but it might be interesting to have lspci output and dmidecode output. Can't attach on this list so you would have to put inline or in a bug on Sourceforge or on pastebin 



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Jesse Brandeburg


> On Dec 2, 2016, at 7:31 PM, Michał Mirosław <mir...@re...> wrote:
> 
> Dear Developers,
> 
> I just noticed this funny suggestion from the driver: it is suggesting to
> move an i40e card around, but in this case the PCI-E slot would need to be
> in another machine. ;-)
> 
> [97788.720326] i40e: Intel(R) 40-10 Gigabit Ethernet Connection Network Driver - version 1.5.25
> [97788.720331] i40e: Copyright(c) 2013 - 2016 Intel Corporation.
> [97788.734005] i40e 0000:01:00.3: fw 4.33.31377 api 1.2 nvm 4.42 0x8000191c 0.0.0
> [97788.734009] i40e 0000:01:00.3: The driver for the device detected an older version of the NVM image than expected. Please update the NVM image.
> [...]
> [97789.169918] i40e 0000:01:00.3: PCI-Express: Speed 5.0GT/s Width x8
> [97789.169923] i40e 0000:01:00.3: PCI-Express bandwidth available for this device may be insufficient for optimal performance.
> [97789.169926] i40e 0000:01:00.3: Please move the device to a different PCI-e link with more lanes and/or higher transfer rate.
> [97789.200395] i40e 0000:01:00.3: Features: PF-id[3] VFs: 32 VSIs: 34 QP: 4 RSS FD_ATR FD_SB NTUPLE CloudF VxLAN NVGRE PTP VEPA
> 
> # lscpu|grep Model
> Model:                 42
> Model name:            Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz
> 
> (this one has only PCI-e 2.0 links, and the card has only x8)
> 
> Best Regards,
> Michał Mirosław
> 
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