# [OmniOS-discuss] SolarFlare SFXGE with OmniOS

Doug Hughes doug at will.to
Thu Sep 25 03:02:02 UTC 2014

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    On 9/19/2014 9:03 PM, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
    > On 9/20/14, 1:23 AM, Mark wrote:
    >> On 20/09/2014 5:13 a.m., Dan McDonald wrote:
    >>>
    >>> On Sep 19, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Doug Hughes <doug at will.to> wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> Is anybody using Solarflare 10G cards with OmniOS. I have a 2010
    >>>> vintage of Openindiana (yeah, I should really upgrade that - it's a
    >>>> test box) running with the Sol10 production sfxge driver and working
    >>>> flawlessly for years. It tried the sfxge package for Sol11 and for
    >>>> Sol10 on OmniOS r151012 (yeah, I know it's not quite ready) and it
    >>>> crashes and core dumps as soon as I send any traffic on the nic, even
    >>>> a ping.
    >>>>
    >>>> Curious if anybody else is using them and having luck?
    >>>
    >>> Without source you'll be out of luck.
    >>
    >>
    >> Source at http://cr.illumos.org/~webrev/rincebrain/illumos-sfxge/
    >>
    >
    > Ok, got it to build cleanly, code at:
    >
    > https://github.com/skiselkov/illumos-gate/tree/sfxge
    >
    > Unique commits in that branch:
    >
    > 1c3fe595 - initial commit of the sfxge pretty much as-is from the webrev
    > 	(plus a few formatting fixes to get git to shut up about
    > 	trailing whitespace)
    >
    > efb39dd8 - build & lint cleaning to get it to build with our gcc, plus
    > 	one bugfix noted below
    >
    > I'm not going to bother with cstyle fixes for foreign code, there's 1200
    > offending lines and it would jeopardize upstream-mergeability anyway.
    >
    > Willing testers with sfxge hardware who don't wanna muck around with
    > manual building can grab a pre-built version at:
    > http://37.153.99.61/sfxge.tar.gz. To install & use, do:
    >
    > # tar xzf sfxge.tar.gz
    > # beadm create sfxge_test
    > # beadm mount sfxge_test
    > Mounted successfully on: '<MOUNTPOINT>'
    > # cp -r sfxge/sfxge.conf sfxge/debug/* <MOUNTPOINT>/kernel/drv
    > # bootadm update-archive -R <MOUNTPOINT>
    > # reboot -fe sfxge_test
    >
    > And take her out for a good spin. If testing proves this card to work
    > well, I can post a code review & RTI.
    >
    > ==============
    >
    > Lint found one potential bug (which I've fixed) that might be worth
    > reporting back to Solarflare:
    >
    > sfxge_gld_v3.c:680: contains a line like this:
    >
    > if ((rc = sfxge_ev_moderation_set(sp, (unsigned int) val) != 0))
    >
    > The double brace at the end is incorrect, "rc" will get assigned the
    > result of the "sfxge_ev_moderation_set() != 0" comparison. I'm fairly
    > confident this is not what the author intended.
    >
    > Cheers,
    >

    So far so good. ping tests work successfully with OmniOS r012 and dladm
    aggr.

    will run some real tests soon.

    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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