igb driver RX (was TX) hangs when out of mbuf clusters

Karim Fodil-Lemelin fodillemlinkarim at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 21:09:39 UTC 2011


Yes.

2011/2/16 Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com>

> I've been in email conversation with Beezar, and  he's clarified some
> things, I think
> I would like to try his approach to the issue, it will mean one more
> iteration of changes
> to test, would you be willing to do so? It would be good to know for sure
> if his approach
> also eliminates the problem.
>
> Jack
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Jack,
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Yes, it was the fix for this, Mike has tested and confirmed it
>> eliminates
>> > the problem, and yes
>> > I will MFC the relevant bits back to 8 and 7 for you asap.
>> >
>> I can confirm this works too. A machine showing the symptoms in a
>> couple of minutes with heavy traffic has been running in the last few
>> days with the backport of all the changes. I did not cared much to do
>> things cleanly at the time. Do you have any approximate ETA for the
>> MFC of the relevant bits ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>  - Arnaud
>>
>
>


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