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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Will Simoneau <simoneau@ele.uri.edu>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	Belisko Marek <marek.belisko@gmail.com>,
	Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, bdowning@lavos.net,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [bisect] kernel 2.6.38 regression with root nfs mounting
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:22:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110329212210.GB30482@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110329202408.GM1966@ele.uri.edu>

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 04:24:08PM -0400, Will Simoneau wrote:

> Interestingly, we are both using DM9000 network chips. I wonder if there
> is a UDP-related problem on the DM9000. I will play with my
> configuration a little more (in particular testing proto=tcp and revert
> of 53d4737580535e073963b91ce87d4216e434fab5) but my guess is the DM9000
> driver/chip is to blame. The DM9000A on my board has 16K of on-chip SRAM
> used for its RX/TX buffers which may be playing a part in the problem.

It's more likely that the DM9000 is just slow and fragile.  One thing to
note with a lot of the lower end network chips is that you end up
needing to specify rsize and wsize so that you don't get fragmentation -
about 1k tends to work well IME.  Otherwise performance often degrades
to the point of unusability.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-29 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTimjmdi8sFTTjSPerOVgHQ+pjjwwMvCUX3AJ16At@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <43F07477-9075-444D-9BBB-368650538EA8@oracle.com>
2011-03-23  6:30   ` [bisect] kernel 2.6.38 regression with root nfs mounting Belisko Marek
2011-03-23 13:44     ` Chuck Lever
2011-03-23 13:46       ` Belisko Marek
2011-03-23 14:06         ` Chuck Lever
     [not found]           ` <AANLkTik0UgB+k2i=E5t9XcF50SoSr_iXaFYrhctDx0FJ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-23 14:54             ` Chuck Lever
2011-03-25  7:24               ` Belisko Marek
2011-03-25 13:26                 ` Chuck Lever
2011-03-29 20:24                   ` Will Simoneau
2011-03-29 21:22                     ` Mark Brown [this message]

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