From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: pomac@vapor.com
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: jumbo frame regression fix
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:04:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4703D9B6.109@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191375274.26233.17.camel@localhost>
Ian Kumlien wrote:
> On tis, 2007-10-02 at 18:02 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> Remove unneeded check that caused problems with jumbo frame sizes.
>> The check was recently added and is wrong.
>> When using jumbo frames the sky2 driver does fragmentation, so
>> rx_data_size is less than mtu.
>
> Confirmed working.
>
> Now running with 9k mtu with no errors, =)
Have you verified that you are actually getting jumbo packets out of the
NIC? I had one machine which did standard packets silently using sky2
and jumbo using sk98lin. I was looking for something else with tcpdump
and got one of those WTF moments when I saw all the tiny packets.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1191372129.26233.12.camel@localhost>
2007-10-03 1:02 ` [PATCH] sky2: jumbo frame regression fix Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-03 1:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-03 4:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-03 4:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-03 1:34 ` Ian Kumlien
2007-10-03 4:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-03 7:37 ` Ian Kumlien
2007-10-03 8:29 ` iank
2007-11-24 16:23 ` [SKY2] Problems (2.6.24-rc3-git1) Ian Kumlien
2007-10-03 18:04 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2007-10-03 18:28 ` [PATCH] sky2: jumbo frame regression fix Ian Kumlien
2007-10-03 17:39 ` Jeff Garzik
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