From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266703AbUGQL6I (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jul 2004 07:58:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266704AbUGQL6I (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jul 2004 07:58:08 -0400 Received: from smtp107.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.227]:60816 "HELO smtp107.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266703AbUGQL6F (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jul 2004 07:58:05 -0400 Message-ID: <40F9144A.9010107@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:58:02 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Debian/1.7-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Blueman CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.7, e1000] large MTU allocation failure... References: <25348.1090062249@www11.gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <25348.1090062249@www11.gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Daniel Blueman wrote: > When I try to enable jumbo frames, and increase the MTU size to 9000 octets > [1], I see allocation failures in the kernel logs [2]. > > Is there another way of enabling jumbo frames and use a large MTU? > > Kernel is stock 2.6.7, IA32. > > --- [1] > > # ifconfig eth0 mtu 9000 > > --- [2] > > Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.2.52-k4 > Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation. > e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network > Connection > e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps > Full Duplex > ifconfig: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Order 3 GFP_ATOMIC allocation failures aren't really surprising. I wonder if things can be improved in the network system. If not, I have a possible workaround for the problem.