ip_soft_rings_cnt

Description

Determines the number of squeues to be used to fanout the incoming TCP/IP connections.

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Note –

The incoming traffic is placed on one of the rings. If the ring is overloaded, packets are dropped. For every packet that gets dropped, the kstat dls counter, dls_soft_ring_pkt_drop, is incremented.

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Default

2

Range

0 - nCPUs, where nCPUs is the maximum number of CPUs in the system

Dynamic?

No. The interface should be plumbed again when changing this parameter.

When to Change

Consider setting this parameter to a value greater than 2 on systems that have 10 Gbps NICs and many CPUs.

Zone Configuration

This parameter can only be set in the global zone.

Commitment Level

Obsolete

Change History

For information, see ip_soft_rings_cnt (Solaris 10 11/06 Release).