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Emulex OCe11102
2-PORT IBM/EMULEX 10GB VIRTUAL FABRIC ADAPTER 49Y7952 OCE11102 HIGH
- Low Profile
- Pci Express 2.0 X8
- IBM 49Y7952
- ~50% faster in IOPS comparing to Intel X520
- Converged Network Adapter (FCoE offloading, iSCSI offload, VIRT offloading)
- Broadcom Emulex OneConnect OCe11102 ( Chipset: BladeEngine 3 be3)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC (be3) (rev 02) 04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC (be3) (rev 02)
Issues
AMD-Vi
On AMD Ryzen with X570 chipset:
iommu ivhd0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IOTLB_INV_TIMEOUT device=04:00.0 address=0x1001e0b00] AMD-Vi: Completion-Wait loop timed out AMD-Vi: Completion-Wait loop timed out AMD-Vi: Completion-Wait loop timed out
Workaround:
- add to kernel cmdline:
iommu=soft
bond and bridge
There is issue where Emulex is a bond0 slave and bond0 is part of a bridge.
More here: No DCHPOFFERS received
Solution: upgrade to latest firmware.
Firmware
IBM
Latest published (from 2011): Support CD Release for Emulex-based 10GbE v5.1.42 - IBM System x
Broadcom
Please read user guide:
- https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12378876|Emulex® Drivers for Linux for OneConnect®
Adapters - User Guide v 11.2]]
Download firmware upgrade from:
- Broadcom page. Look for
OneConnect Flash ISO Image
https://www.dell.com/support/home/pl-pl/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=1dhk6
Issues
fw versions
- 4.1.455.10 - on old i7 machine - bond and bridge works OK
- 4.6.281.21 - on old i5 machine - bond and bridge works OK
- 4.6.281.8 - on AMD Ryzne - bond and bridge broadcast issue present
- 11.4.1186.4 - latest firmware - works OK
fw upgrade
ethtool -i enp37s0f0 driver: be2net version: 5.15.30-2-pve firmware-version: 4.6.281.8 expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:25:00.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: yes supports-eeprom-access: yes supports-register-dump: no supports-priv-flags: yes
Flashin firmware with ethtool. Note - process takes long time~
cp oc11-11.4.1186.4.ufi /lib/firmware/ ethtool --flash enp37s0f0 oc11-11.4.1186.4.ufi ethtool --flash enp37s0f1 oc11-11.4.1186.4.ufi
# ethtool -i enp37s0f0 driver: be2net version: 5.15.30-2-pve firmware-version: 4.6.281.8 [11.4.1186.4] expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:25:00.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: yes supports-eeprom-access: yes supports-register-dump: no supports-priv-flags: yes
Apply new firmware - reboot the system.