From: Nix <nix@esperi•org.uk>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr•zoreil.com>
Cc: rl@hellgate•ch, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@gentoo•org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
Linux-Netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3.19+: (and quite probably earlier) VIA Rhine hanging under high network load, yet again: redux
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 21:59:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ftqxpea.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150404210518.GA7698@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (Francois Romieu's message of "Sat, 4 Apr 2015 23:05:18 +0200")
On 4 Apr 2015, Francois Romieu said:
> Nix <nix@esperi•org.uk> :
> [...]
>
> This driver leaves holes in its receive ring under memory pressure.
> It may not help.
>
> You can try the gross patch below against v3.19. It compiles. I have to go.
Gross or not, it seems to work: I've loaded it enough to crash it half a
dozen times, and not a crash. However, the rx_dropped stats on the link
aren't going up, so maybe I've just been lucky.
I'll put it under more load tomorrow :)
--
NULL && (void)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-05 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-04 18:03 3.19+: (and quite probably earlier) VIA Rhine hanging under high network load, yet again: redux Nix
2015-04-04 21:05 ` Francois Romieu
2015-04-04 21:26 ` Nix
2015-04-05 4:01 ` David Miller
2015-04-05 20:59 ` Nix [this message]
2015-04-05 23:15 ` Francois Romieu
2015-04-05 23:29 ` Nix
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