From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mala Anand" Subject: Re: Network oops Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:58:30 -0500 Sender: owner-netdev@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-owner@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, pekkas@netcore.fi Return-path: To: Donald Becker List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org >> 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