Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756682AbYAJVtY (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:49:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752918AbYAJVtO (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:49:14 -0500 Received: from okcforum.org ([69.17.49.173]:51144 "EHLO mail.okcforum.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752558AbYAJVtN (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:49:13 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 557 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:49:13 EST Message-ID: <478690A3.10405@cygnusx-1.org> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:39:47 -0800 From: Nathan Grennan Organization: Cygnus X-1 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francois Romieu , Alistair John Strachan , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-net@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: r8169 and out of space References: <478655B6.6010406@cygnusx-1.org> <200801101920.47041.alistair@devzero.co.uk> <20080110205727.GA8692@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> In-Reply-To: <20080110205727.GA8692@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1328 Lines: 39 Francois Romieu wrote: > Alistair John Strachan : > [..] > >> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/