Chelsio T580-SO-CR
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I'm not sure whether this is helpful, but I have the T520-SO-CR version of the card and also experienced some issues after the upgrade from 2.4.3_1 to 2.4.4, though nothing nearly as severe as what the OP is going through. When 2.4.4 came up I lost one of the network card tunables I had set. I had disabled Flow Control on the card, and while the tunable was still set in advanced settings, the card showed flow control as enabled after the system booted. Oddly enough, going into advanced settings and opening the flow control tunable and saving it again would then disable flow control. I have not found a way to get around this, including adding the flow control options into loader.conf.local. The system will boot with flow control enabled until I manually disable it. Could it be that something with the driver did change in FreeBSD?
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It might have been. I'm not aware if any changes there though. Even if there were I would still expect it to conform to the sysctl settings.
What values are you actually setting?
hw.cxgbe.pause_settings?Steve
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Hi @stephenw10 - actually I'm setting this tunable (covers both ports on the card):
dev.cxl.0.pause_settings=0
dev.cxl.1.pause_settings=0This worked perfectly in 2.4.3_1 and prior. In 2.4.4 even with these values set under System Tunables and within loader.conf.local, flow control is enabled when the system fresh boots. Maybe something changed?
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Well I would certainly try that variable I posted that should cover both ports. I wasn't aware that had changed but...
Steve
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According to the 11.2 cxl manual page nothing has changed there.
How are you determining flow control is still enabled after boot?
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Thanks @stephenw10 and @Derelict.
Two ways:
- I first saw on the interfaces widget in the dashboard that besides just "10Gbase-SR <full-duplex>", "RX Pause", "TX Pause" were now also included between the < >.
- I confirmed this by via sysctl from the shell and saw that dev.cxl.x.pause_settings was set equal to 3 for both ports.
I'll try hw.cxgbe.pause_settings=0 next to see if that might make a difference. Thanks again for all your help.
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@stephenw10 here is what I get
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Ok so nothing different. Are you able to test that card in FreeBSD 11.2?
Steve
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@tman222 I had that problem after I upgraded to 2.4.2_1 and then the same problem with 2.4.4
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So can you retest with a version you didn't have a problem in?
The Chelsio driver can update the firmware on the card if it finds it's older than the version it has. That may have happened and it may be that that's causing the problem. If it is it would probably be a problem in any OS.
Do you actually see cxlX devices in
pciconf -lv?Steve
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OK my other server is working
R320 exactly the same configuration and firmware and T580 firmware is the same and it is working perfectly just pfsense come up with the bug see https://forum.netgate.com/topic/136203/bug-v2-4-4
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Ok so that is comparing your two systems?
Both are running 2.4.4 and both have the same Chelsio card in?
In that case I would try swapping the cards between the systems and see if the fault follows the card.
Otherwise can we see the complete output of
pciconf -lvfrom both systems?Steve
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@stephenw10 I did still no change :(
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So you swapped the cards and the issue stayed with the same system?
Then if the same card works fine in pfSense 2.4.4 on the other system there is a difference with the system setup or something in the config that is different. The pciconf output between the two systems looks identical?
Steve
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@stephenw10 Hello
I just compare both firmware in lifecycle controller seems the stupid dell have mind of it own the lifecycle controller had upgraded itself to a newer version
FIRMWARE:
BIOS : v2.5.1
Lifecycle Controller : v1.1.1.18HARDWARE I USED
CPU: E5-2450L 1.8GHz 8-core
RAM : 24GB ECC Registered
Network adapter: Chelsio T580-SO-CR
SAS Controller: PERC H310 mini
HDD: Intel SSD 545s Series 256GB
IDRAC: IDRAC7 Enterprise with dedicated cardSome tips:
iDRAC7 (if) make sure you disable auto update option
Lifecycle Controller: Disabled - Just in-caseI will tested to see if it works as is without tuning it and I will post it here so if someone wants to build system like mine won't go trough hell like me
Thank you
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UPDATE
Everything is working perfectly.
The total price of this configuration is less then $700 including R320, Chelsio T580-SO-CR and Intel 545 SSD
I will lower it to $600 because I just found seller on eBay selling Chelsio T580-LP-CR for less then $200. All recommendations on the net was, that T580-LP-CR is the best choice for pfSense.
I've got stuck for day on configuring NEXUS 3132Q-V, but was worth it. When I am done building the HA Cluster I will have the chance to test the speed and submit it to this post.Thank you all
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So just to confirm the cause of the issue here was the "lifecycle controller"? And only in the updated firmware version?
Glad it wasn't a conspiracy anyway.
Steve
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@stephenw10 Yes that was the problem stupid new auto firmware update on the idrac7 option
and before that to old version of the BIOS v1.5.2 upgraded to v2.5.1 and downgraded to LC v1.1.1.18 and all seems to work fineYes, sorry about that I was 24h straight trying to find the solution I am glad you are not a conspirator :)
Thank you
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Is that a bug or brand new Chelsio T580-SO-CR one of the ports just failed
"cxl1: Interface stopped DISTRIBUTING, possible flapping "
thank you
