Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 45)

VMware Driver Software: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57XX User Guide
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can also be set via the esxcfg-module command. See the man page for more information.
Driver Defaults
Table 2: VMware Driver Defaults
Parameter Default Value
Speed Autonegotiation with all speeds advertised
Flow Control Autonegotiation with rx and tx advertised
MTU 1500 (range 46–9000)
Rx Ring Size 200 (range 0–511). Some chips are fixed at 64.
Rx Jumbo Ring
Size
100 (range 0–255). Not all chips support the jumbo ring and some chips that suppoort jumbo frames
do not use the jumbo ring.
Tx Ring Size
511 (range (MAX_SKB_FRAGS+1) – 511). MAX_SKB_FRAGS varies on different kernels and different
architectures. On a 2.6 kernel for x86, MAX_SKB_FRAGS is 18.
Coalesce RX
Microseconds
20 (range 0–1023)
Coalesce RX
Microseconds irq
20 (range 0–255)
Coalesce rx
frames
5 (range 0–1023)
Coalesce rx
frames irq
5 (range 0–255)
Coalesce TX
Microseconds
72 (range 0–1023)
Coalesce tx usecs
irq
20 (range 0–255)
Coalesce tx
frames
53 (range 0–1023)
Coalesce tx
frames irq
5 (range 0–255)
Coalesce stats
usecs
1000000 (aprox. 1 sec.). Some coalescing parameters are not used or have different defaults on some
chips.
MSI Enabled (if supported by the chip and passed the interrupt test).
WoL Disabled
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
tg3.c:v3.118g (Jan 4, 2012)
NIC Detected
vmnic0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704A6) rev 2003] (PCIX:100MHz:64 -bit) MAC address 00:10:18:04:3f:36
vmnic0: attached PHY is 5704 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
vmnic0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
vmnic0: dma_rwctrl[769f4000] dma_mask[64-bit]
Link Up and Speed Indication
tg3: vmnic0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: vmnic0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
Link Down Indication
tg3: vmnic0: Link is down.