Unloading And Removing Driver; Driver Messages; Driver Sign On; Nic Detected - Qlogic 8400 Series User Manual

6–VMware Driver Software
Networking Support

Unloading and Removing Driver

To unload the driver, type the following:
vmkload_mod -u bnx2x

Driver Messages

The following are the most common sample messages that may be logged in the
file /var/log/messages. Use dmesg -n <level> to control the level at which
messages will appear on the console. Most systems are set to level 6 by default.
To see all messages, set the level higher.

Driver Sign On

QLogic 8400/3400 Series 10Gigabit Ethernet Driver
bnx2x 0.40.15 ($DateTime: 2007/11/22 05:32:40 $)

NIC Detected

eth0: QLogic 8400/3400 Series XGb (A1)
PCI-E x8 2.5GHz found at mem e8800000, IRQ 16, node addr
001018360012

MSI-X Enabled Successfully

bnx2x: eth0: using MSI-X

Link Up and Speed Indication

bnx2x: eth0 NIC Link is Up, 10000 Mbps full duplex, receive &
transmit flow control ON

Link Down Indication

bnx2x: eth0 NIC Link is Down

Memory Limitation

If you see messages in the log file that look like the following, then the ESXi host
is severely strained. To relieve this, disable NetQueue.
Dec 2 18:24:20 ESX4 vmkernel: 0:00:00:32.342 cpu2:4142)WARNING:
Heap: 1435: Heap bnx2x already at its maximumSize. Cannot expand.
Dec 2 18:24:20 ESX4 vmkernel: 0:00:00:32.342 cpu2:4142)WARNING:
Heap: 1645: Heap_Align(bnx2x, 4096/4096 bytes, 4096 align) failed.
caller: 0x41800187d654
Dec 2 18:24:20 ESX4 vmkernel: 0:00:00:32.342 cpu2:4142)WARNING:
vmklinux26: alloc_pages: Out of memory
Disable NetQueue by manually loading the bnx2x vmkernel module with the
command.
vmkload_mod bnx2x multi_mode=0
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