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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: mlx4 2.6.31-rc5: SW2HW_EQ failed.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:56:06 -0700
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 > Never heard of device FW.

I just meant firmware running on the device (in this case the connectx adapter).

 > The Mellanox NIC has two ports. Could that be it?

No, the device is basically doing

	nreq = num_possible_cpus() + 1;
	pci_enable_msix(dev->pdev, entries, nreq);

(edited a bit but that's the code).  And nreq is ending up as 33 on your
box.

 > Will get back to you shortly when we have tested this patch.

Thanks.