Subject: Re: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load

From: stephen mulcahy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:03:19 +0100

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> OK it seems forcedeth has problem with checksums ?
> 
> Try to change "ethtool -k eth0" settings ?
> 
> ethtool -K eth0 tso off tx off

Yes, that makes an unresponsive system responsive again immediately, nice!

Should the driver default to disabling this until we problem is corrected?

-stephen