Re: r8169 and out of space

From: Nathan Grennan
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 16:49:17 EST


Francois Romieu wrote:
Alistair John Strachan <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
[..]
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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