From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
link@miggy.org, ian@jeffray.co.uk, csnook@redhat.com,
jie.yang@atheros.com, m@fhloston.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atl1: disable TSO by default
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:37:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B5205C.9000804@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080818192813.0d0dc1fd@osprey.hogchain.net>
Jay Cliburn wrote:
> The atl1 driver is causing stalled connections and file corruption
> whenever TSO is enabled. Two examples are here:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/325
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/18/543
>
> Disable TSO by default until we can determine the source of the
> problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
> cc: stable@kernel.org
> ---
>
> Jeff, I've been trying to find the source of this problem in my
> spare time for a few weeks now, but haven't been successful. We
> turned on TSO by default in 2.6.26 after fixing a nasty performance
> bug in it, but there's apparently another bug lurking.
>
> This patch needs to be also applied to 2.6.26, hence the cc to
> stable.
>
> drivers/net/atlx/atl1.c | 1 -
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
applied
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-27 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-19 0:28 [PATCH] atl1: disable TSO by default Jay Cliburn
2008-08-19 13:10 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-19 22:53 ` Jay Cliburn
2008-08-19 22:58 ` David Miller
2008-08-19 23:17 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-27 9:37 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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