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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
Cc: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
	Robert PipCA <robertpipca@yahoo.com>,
	vortex@scyld.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [vortex] Re: MTU discovery
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:57:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D069C69.1090003@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206111523050.1688-100000@presario>

Donald Becker wrote:
> A 16 bit register.. 64KB packets.  There are various issues with using
> large packet sizes.  There is no driver that has been verified with
> jumbo frames.  I have been throwing driver versions at Rishi Srivatsavai
> <rishis at CLEMSON.EDU> trying to sort out the issues.  You might notice
> the changes in 0.99W, although they don't handle the FIFO limit issues.


With the VLAN stuff that suddenly appeared, I did some large packet 
testing...  I would typically cap the MTU limit at just under the FIFO 
size, since it often requires special handling doing frames > FIFO size.

I do not look forward to re-verifying the 2.4 tulip driver across all 
those chipsets, to make sure my large packet code [which is not yet in 
the kernel] works. :)

	Jeff




      reply	other threads:[~2002-06-12  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-10  7:45 MTU discovery Robert PipCA
2002-06-10  8:05 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-06-10  8:23   ` Robert PipCA
2002-06-10  9:50   ` Olivier Galibert
2002-06-10 21:45     ` Bill Davidsen
2002-06-10 22:02       ` Joel Jaeggli
2002-06-11  3:31         ` BALBIR SINGH
2002-06-11  3:46           ` Joel Jaeggli
2002-06-11 19:27   ` [vortex] " Donald Becker
2002-06-12  0:57     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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