Re: sw-iommu leak with Ethernet jumbo frames and nfs

[Francois Romieu]

Joe Harvell <jharvell+lists.linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxx> :
> I noticed a problem with SW-IOMMU allocation failures when using NFS over 
> my PCI Ethernet network interface using jumbo frames.  I think it's a leak, 
> rather than under-engineered because the problem only happens when using 
> NFS and jumbo frames.  When I run netperf at a much higher data rate over 
> the NIC, I don't see any problems.  Also, I think it's a leak because the 
> problem still occurrs very quickly even when I double the SW-IOMMU heap 
[...]
> The Ethernet controller is an on-board Realtek R8110SC using driver r8169.  

This was fixed before 2.6.27 as commit a866bbf6aacf95f849810079442a20be118ce905.

Thanks for the detailled bug report.

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Ueimor
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