Re: [PATCH] af_packet: Don't use skb after dev_queue_xmit()

[Michael Breuer]

On 1/6/2010 11:53 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:00:34 -0500
> Michael Breuer<mbreuer@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
>    
> > Changing MTU to 9000, everything basically breaks - Can't use X11 (local
> > or remote - get X11 screen after gdm login locally, but then goes back
> > to greeter; remote gets no greeter); ssh sessions hang; etc. This time I
> > was able to reset the MTU back to 1500 without a reboot - but I did have
> > to ifconfig eth0 down and then up. Looking at the sk98lin code, it looks
> > to me like they do a bit more work with existing buffers before
> > completing the MTU switch. Note that even doing this, X11 did not work
> > (it did with the old mtu change code). Tried changing to mtu 4500 - same
> > effect as 9000... but when I switched back to 1500, ksoftirqd started
> > spinning using 100% of one core.
> >      
> The problem is that patch was enabling scatter-gather and checksum offload
> that won't work on EC_U hardware with 9K MTU.  At least, it never worked
> for me when I tested it. So because of that it really doesn't change anything
> for the better on that chip version.
>
> What version chip is on that motherboard?  Mine is:
>   Yukon-2 EC Ultra chip revision 3
> which corresponds to B0 step.
>
> Another possibility is the PHY register which controls number of ticks
> of buffering.  The default is zero, which gives the most buffering (good),
> but the firmware could be reprogramming it (bad).  In general, the driver
> doesn't fiddle with bits that are already set correctly, because sometimes
> vendors need to tweak PCI timing in firmware/BIOS.  It seems the firmware on this
> chip is just a bunch of register setups done on power on.
>    
Also - I'm seeing a huge number of dropped packets  (RX) 200-300/second. 
Probably why this is so slow.

Current ifconfig:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:18:00:1C:3B
          inet addr:10.0.0.1  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::226:18ff:fe00:1c3b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING ALLMULTI MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:26647536 errors:0 dropped:517884 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12112780 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:38960063319 (36.2 GiB)  TX bytes:1889879762 (1.7 GiB)
          Interrupt:18



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