Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:13:58 +0300 | From | Dan Aloni <> | Subject | Re: workaround large MTU and N-order allocation failures |
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:08:22AM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org> : > [...] > > The problem with large MTU is external memory fragmentation in > > the buddy system following high workload, causing alloc_skb() to > > fail. > > If the issue hits the Rx path, it is probably the responsibility of > the device driver. Which kind of hardware do you use ?
We are using a SuperMicro board and the network driver is e1000. The revision of the chipset is 82546GB-copper (maps to e1000_82546_rev_3).
This particular chipset does not support packet splitting, so we are looking for a hack on the skb layer.
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