From: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
To: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: L F <lfabio.linux@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e1000 driver and samba
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:24:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46ED58AF.1070000@katalix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46EC2D5A.7080504@intel.com>
Kok, Auke wrote:
> James Chapman wrote:
>> Kok, Auke wrote:
>>>> rx_long_byte_count: 34124849453
>>
>> Are these long frames expected in your network? What is the MTU of the
>> transmitting clients? Perhaps this might explain why reads work
>> (because data is coming from the Linux box so the packets have smaller
>> MTU) while writes cause delays or packet loss because the clients are
>> sending long frames which are getting fragmented?
>
> those are not "long frames" but the number of bytes the hardware counted
> in its "long" data type based byte counter.
Thanks for correcting me, Auke.
Should this counter be renamed to avoid someone else making this mistake
in the future? Just a thought.
--
James Chapman
Katalix Systems Ltd
http://www.katalix.com
Catalysts for your Embedded Linux software development
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-16 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 2:04 e1000 driver and samba L F
2007-09-14 17:18 ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-14 18:40 ` L F
2007-09-14 20:59 ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-15 0:37 ` L F
2007-09-15 5:09 ` Bill Fink
2007-09-15 12:27 ` L F
2007-09-15 12:44 ` L F
2007-09-15 17:44 ` James Chapman
2007-09-15 19:07 ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-16 4:06 ` L F
2007-09-16 5:04 ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-17 16:42 ` L F
2007-09-17 17:02 ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-17 18:58 ` L F
2007-09-17 21:01 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2007-09-18 6:03 ` Bill Fink
2007-09-18 7:45 ` Urs Thuermann
2007-09-18 8:47 ` Bill Fink
2007-09-18 13:39 ` Florian Weimer
2007-09-18 16:32 ` L F
2007-09-18 17:04 ` Tantilov, Emil S
2007-09-19 14:53 ` L F
2007-09-20 2:51 ` Bill Fink
2007-09-21 14:08 ` L F
2007-09-20 4:53 ` Bill Fink
2007-09-18 16:44 ` Bill Fink
2007-09-17 18:02 ` Rick Jones
2007-09-17 18:51 ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-16 16:24 ` James Chapman [this message]
2007-09-16 20:03 ` Kok, Auke
2007-09-16 4:07 ` L F
2007-09-14 18:26 ` Francois Romieu
2007-09-14 18:41 ` L F
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-20 23:30 Bruce Cole
2007-09-21 14:13 ` L F
2007-09-21 18:21 ` Bruce Cole
2007-09-21 21:49 ` Francois Romieu
2007-09-21 22:01 ` Bruce Cole
2007-09-21 22:41 ` Francois Romieu
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