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From: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
To: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Cc: "'LKML'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VFs go missing with latest kernel
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:57:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F297D25.7090902@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C5551D9AAB213A418B7FD5E4A6F30A0702F66ADF@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com>

On 02/01/2012 10:47 AM, Rose, Gregory V wrote:
> I found this in the log file you sent me.  I had missed it yesterday.
> 
> [   15.835223] igb 0000:07:00.0: 7 pre-allocated VFs found - override max_vfs setting of 7
> [   15.835393] igb 0000:07:00.0: 7 VFs allocated
> 
> I think that must be a bug in the code that searches for VFs already allocated and is the source of your problem.  I'll keep you updated on what I find but it has to be a bug in the VF device lookups.

Confused. What is pre-allocating the VFs during boot? Looking at my
rc-scripts I am only set MAC addresses at boot. No VMs have been started
yet. This setup has worked fine with Fedora 14 and 3.0 kernels; it's
really the move to 3.3-rc that I hit the problem.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-01 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-31 22:53 David Ahern
2012-01-31 22:58 ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-01-31 23:05   ` David Ahern
2012-01-31 23:07     ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-02-01  0:30   ` David Ahern
2012-02-01  0:43     ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-02-01  0:50       ` David Ahern
2012-02-01  1:03         ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-02-01 17:47           ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-02-01 17:57             ` David Ahern [this message]
2012-02-01 18:02               ` Rose, Gregory V

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