Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 601)

Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual P010077-01A Rev. A
3. Configuration
NIC Driver Configuration
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RSS Profile Closest processor (default)
Closest processor static
NUMA scaling
NUMA scaling static
Conservative scaling Windows Server 2012
The RSS Profile setting determines
the RSS load balancing profile
implemented by Microsoft for this
network adapter. The “Closest
Processor” settings will tend to
localize the RSS CPUs to one NUMA
node, allowing the device driver to
allocate memory from the local
node.
The “NUMA Scaling” settings will
use all NUMA nodes on the system,
and the memory allocation will not
be specific to a particular node.
The driver will ignore the
Preferred NUMA node setting.
SpeedDuplex AutoNeg (default)
10GbpsFullDuplex
1GbpsFullDuplex Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2 SpeedDuplex is used for selecting
link speed, mainly for 10G BaseT
Adapters. When it is set to the
default, it auto negotiates
100Mbps/1Gbps/10Gbps with
switch/peer.
Link speed can be forced to
1Gbps, if option 1.0Gbps Full
Duplex is selected.
Link speed can be forced to
10Gbps, if option 10Gbps Full
Duplex is selected. 10Gbps is
the maximum supported link
speed.
Table 3-3 Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC
Driver Options (Continued)
Option Name Acceptable Values
Supported Operating
Systems
Definition