From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760426AbYAJTU6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:20:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753574AbYAJTUv (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:20:51 -0500 Received: from smtp1.betherenow.co.uk ([87.194.0.68]:58204 "EHLO smtp1.bethere.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752367AbYAJTUu (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:20:50 -0500 From: Alistair John Strachan To: Nathan Grennan Subject: Re: r8169 and out of space Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:20:46 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <478655B6.6010406@cygnusx-1.org> In-Reply-To: <478655B6.6010406@cygnusx-1.org> Cc: Francois Romieu , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-net@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801101920.47041.alistair@devzero.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bugzilla for this report: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9468 On Thursday 10 January 2008 17:28:22 you wrote: > I saw your thread on LKML about the problem with r8169. Did you ever > find a patch or solution? No, we have not diagnosed the cause of the problem, beyond the swiotlb usage. I'm adding the r8169 maintainer, linux-net and linux-kernel to CC, to pass on your information, I hope you don't mind. > I have a Abit AB9 Pro motherboard with Intel P965 chipset, 4gb of > memory, and two onboard r8169. The kernel is > kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.x86_64. I am using jumbo frames, the MTU set at > 5924. The error is mentions 5946 bytes. 5946 - 5924 is 22. The same as > your 7200 MTU subtracted from your bytes, 7222. > > I can set my MTU to 7200, and I can ping with 60000 byte packets just > fine, but tcp connections hang unless I set the MTU to 5924 or lower. > The other side is a Nvidia based board with a forcedeth driver that has > in the past taken 9000 just fine. -- Cheers, Alistair. 137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK.