My target is to increase the ring buffer ( I have Linux red-hat 7.1 ) , but I get the following:
ethtool -G eth1 rx 8192
Cannot set device ring parameters: Invalid argument
so how to enable this value? , or maybe this is the MAX value?
the current status:
ethtool -g eth1
Ring parameters for eth1:
Pre-set maximums:
RX: 4096
RX Mini: 0
RX Jumbo: 0
TX: 4096
Current hardware settings:
RX: 256
RX Mini: 0
RX Jumbo: 0
TX: 512
Remark - I want to increase the ring buffer because errors - pkts rx OOB - indicate that the network card is out of buffer
# ethtool -i eth1
driver: vmxnet3
version: 1.1.30.0-k-NAPI
firmware-version:
bus-info: 0000:1b:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no
more /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist ipv6
more /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
MTU=9000
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=70:10:76:9E:02:81
TYPE=Ethernet
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=12.160.0.36
modinfo vmxnet3
filename: /lib/modules/3.10.0- 229.14.1.el7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3.ko
version: 1.1.30.0-k
license: GPL v2
description: VMware vmxnet3 virtual NIC driver
author: VMware, Inc.
rhelversion: 7.1
srcversion: EF80BF71B6F577C3370F410
alias: pci:v000015ADd000007B0sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:
intree: Y
vermagic: 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
signer: Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel signing key
sig_key: 44:02:00:8F:2B:3F:DA:1F:6C:1C:64:BA:2C:10:BF:0C:FE:EC:AB:B7
sig_hashalgo: sha256