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VMware Driver Software: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57XX User Guide
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VMware Driver Software: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57XX User
Guide
Packaging
Drivers
Packaging
The VMware driver is released in the following packaging format.
Table 1: VMware Driver Packaging
Format Drivers
VMware VIB vmware-esx-drivers-net-tg3-version.x86_64.vib
Drivers
Download, Install, and Update Drivers
To download, install, or update the VMware ESX/ESXi driver for NetXtreme I GbE network adapters, see
http://www.vmware.com/support .
Driver Parameters
NetQueue
The optional parameter force_netq can be used to set the number of Rx and Tx net queues. BCM57XX devices that support
NetQueue are the BCM5718, BCM5719, BCM5720, BCM5721, and BCM5722.
By default, the driver tries to use the optimal number of NetQueues. To explicitly force the number of queues, set the number
of NetQueues per port via the following command:
esxcfg-module -s force_netq=x,x,x.... tg3
Allowed values for x are –1 to 15:
1–15 will force the number of NetQueues for the given NIC.
0 disables NetQueue.
–1 specifies to use the default driver NetQueue value.
the number of "x" entries can go up to 32, which means the maximum supported NICs = 32.
Example usage:
esxcfg-module -s force_netq=-1,0,1,2 tg3]
tg3 NIC 0: Use the default number of NetQueues.
tg3 NIC 1: Disable the NetQueue feature.
tg3 NIC 2: Use 1 NetQueue.
tg3 NIC 3: Use 2 NetQueues.
Note that the NIC # above does not correspond to the vmnic<#>. The NIC number is the system vmnic probe order number.
Optimally, the number of NetQueues matches the number of CPUs on the machine.
Driver Parameters
Several optional parameters can be supplied as a command line argument to the vmkload_mod command. These parameters