Chelsio adapter fails to function after service network restart on IBM PowerVM based system
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Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 4 (SLES 11 SP4)
Situation
System is configured with Chelsio PCIe2 LP 2x10 GbE SR 2x1 GbE UTP (FC 5280) Adapter on a PowerVM based system. The initial installation and startup works fine (using cxgb4 driver). Then after doing a network restart, the adapter stops working.
Resolution
To mitigate these problems on PowerVM based systems, the following work
around is needed:
a) Add modprobe cxgb4 msi=1 to /etc/init.d/openibd
b) Add CXGB4=yes to /etc/infiniband/openib.conf
Cause
Chesio adapters (cxgb4) request more than 32 MSI-Xs per PCI function. This is not
supported on PowerVM based systems and hence the cxgb4 driver fails to initialize.
Additionally the configuration scripts do not load the cxgb4 driver by
default. Thus network fails to come up on openibd
restart.
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- Document ID:7016663
- Creation Date: 09-Jul-2015
- Modified Date:18-Oct-2022
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