Re: [E1000-devel] Excessive frame dropping on 82574L

2009-12-22 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 18:53 -0700, Richard Scobie wrote: I have a low end server, Core 2 Duo 2.8, 4GB used to backup using rsync over a 82574L interface. Kernel 2.6.30.9-102.fc11.x86_64 (e1000e 0.3.3.4-k4). It is using MSI-X interrupts. It's suffering somewhat due to dropping frames: RX

[E1000-devel] How to force fiber link up when connected in simplex mode

2009-12-22 Thread Craig Johnston
For some complex security related reasons, we have a system where we are broadcasting data packets from one machine to another via a simplex fiber optic link.  For the simplex link, we run a single fiber from the Tx of the source to the Rx of the sink. We are using RHEL5.3 on both ends of the

Re: [E1000-devel] How to force fiber link up when connected in simplex mode

2009-12-22 Thread Ronciak, John
Does the e1000e driver from our Sourceforge site work correctly for you? It's available at http://e1000.sf.net I'm not that anything is wrong either but at least we would know that that the 2 driver versions are doing something differently or not. Cheers, John

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: Fix tests of unsigned in e1000_tx_map()

2009-12-22 Thread Jeff Kirsher
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:02, Roel Kluin roel.kl...@gmail.com wrote: The variables count and i are unsigned so the (|=) 0 tests do not work. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin roel.kl...@gmail.com --- Found using coccinelle: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ This should be all with this pattern. As

[E1000-devel] ixgbe warning

2009-12-22 Thread Yinghai Lu
bunch of warning... [ 809.824721] WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:1908 dev_queue_xmit+0x243/0x4c7() [ 809.832183] Hardware name: Sun [ 809.832193] eth16 selects TX queue 98, but real number of TX queues is 64 [ 809.832203] Modules linked in: [ 809.832216] Pid: 26440, comm: iperf Not tainted

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH 0/3] increase skb size to prevent dma over skb boundary

2009-12-22 Thread Brandon Philips
On 11:20 Thu 10 Dec 2009, Tantilov, Emil S wrote: I am trying to test the patches you submitted (thanks btw) and so far am not able to reproduce the panic you described. When MTU is at 1500 RCTL.LPE (bit 5) is set to 0 and the HW will not allow the reception of large packets (1522 bytes,