Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:39:47 -0800 | From | Nathan Grennan <> | Subject | Re: r8169 and out of space |
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Francois Romieu wrote: > Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk> : > [..] > >> No, we have not diagnosed the cause of the problem, beyond the swiotlb usage. >> I'm adding the r8169 maintainer, linux-net and linux-kernel to CC, to pass on >> your information, I hope you don't mind. >> > > swiotlb fragmentation perhaps ? > > Switching the driver to be page based on Rx would help then. > > [...] > >>> I have a Abit AB9 Pro motherboard with Intel P965 chipset, 4gb of >>> memory, and two onboard r8169. >>> > > Which r8169 model exactly ? > > Here is some of the output from lspci -vv.
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01) Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Unknown device 240b 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01) Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Unknown device 240b
I think I fixed the the 5924 vs 7200 issue by upgrading to kernel-2.6.23.13-104.fc8.x86_64.
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