From: "Mala Anand" <manand@us.ibm.com>
To: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-owner@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, pekkas@netcore.fi
Subject: Re: Network oops
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:58:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae7upu$je2$2@main.gmane.org> (raw)
>> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Mala Anand wrote:
>> I have seen this problem with this NIC. You need to increase
>> the number of buffers in the RX and TX ring in eepro100.c file.
>> Right now it is set to 32, change it to 256 or 128 this error
>> will go away.
> Donald Becker wrote:
>Changing the Tx queue size or number of Rx skbuffs waiting to be filled
>will not fix a problem. It might mask some problem e.g. a temporary
>shortage of skbuffs, but it doesn't fix anything.
The problem what I saw was resource problem and as a result I had packet
drops. The
input rate was high and the driver didn't have enough resources to handle.
It was a pure resource problem.
--
Regards,
Mala
Mala Anand
E-mail:manand@us.ibm.com
Linux Technology Center - Performance
Phone:838-8088; Tie-line:678-8088
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-12 16:58 Mala Anand [this message]
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2002-06-12 17:42 ` Network oops Nivedita Singhvi
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2002-06-10 14:42 Mala Anand
2002-06-12 1:35 ` Donald Becker
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2002-06-09 17:31 ` george anzinger
[not found] ` <3D0390E2.1B80ADEE@mvista.com>
2002-06-10 4:31 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-10 4:32 ` David S. Miller
[not found] ` <20020609.213150.32126725.davem@redhat.com>
2002-06-10 4:48 ` george anzinger
[not found] ` <3D042F8F.72764243@mvista.com>
2002-06-10 5:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 17:19 ` george anzinger
[not found] ` <3D120EAE.5A0D365E@mvista.com>
2002-06-21 0:38 ` David S. Miller
[not found] ` <20020620.173805.55219901.davem@redhat.com>
2002-06-21 14:16 ` george anzinger
[not found] ` <3D133538.60B6810C@mvista.com>
2002-06-21 14:17 ` David S. Miller
[not found] ` <20020621.071720.07439917.davem@redhat.com>
2002-06-21 15:12 ` george anzinger
2002-06-22 0:55 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <20020622025551.A1919@averell>
2002-06-28 19:56 ` george anzinger
[not found] ` <20020609.213224.01016187.davem@redhat.com>
2002-06-10 8:11 ` george anzinger
[not found] ` <3D045F15.578E1DA9@mvista.com>
2002-06-10 8:31 ` David S. Miller
[not found] ` <20020610.013110.81671593.davem@redhat.com>
2002-06-10 14:12 ` george anzinger
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