Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

Jan Kasprzak
2001-04-17T15:50:31Z

Andi Kleen wrote:
: On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:10:07PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
: > 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (rev 74)
:
: IIRC the problem came up earlier. Some versions of 3com NICs seem to make
: problems with the hardware checksum. There were some fixes in the driver
: later; could you try it with 2.4.4pre3 (which includes zerocopy) ?
:
I was not able to boot 2.4.4pre3 at all: It panicked when
initializing aic7xxx. So I've changed the config to old_aic7xxx,
but it locked up on starting up RAID arrays.

BTW, patch-2.4.4pre3 does not contain any significant change
to 3c59x.c (the only change is adding some #include file).

Now I am back to 2.4.3 and I'll try to run proftpd without sendfile().

-Y.

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