From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dotan Barak Subject: Re: Quick mlx4 IB SR-IOV howto? Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:29:13 +0200 Message-ID: <50C77B79.3010704@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Yi-Man Ma Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Hi Yi-Man. > > > Hi, > > You enabled SR-IOV on ConnectX-3 adapter successfully. > I also tried to do the same thing, but I failed. > What did you do to enable SR-IOV on ConnectX-3 adapter? > I tried following steps: > 1. Enable Intel VT-d in BIOS and in the kernel. In some servers this isn't enough, there is a "virtualization technology" option and you need to enable it too. > 2. rmmod mlx4_en > rmmode_mlx4_core > modprobe mlx4_core sr_iov=1 probe_vf=1 > But it failed. Do you have an SR-IOV capable firmware in your HCA? > Do I still have other things to do for enabling SR-IOV on ConnectX-3 adapter? > > The output of dmesg or /var/log/messages with the error message can be useful. Thanks Dotan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html