netdev - Re: PROBLEM: too much RX drop packets on kernel 2.6.26 and 2.6.27.x

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Message-Id: <200810241112.01255.marc.dietrich@ap.physik.uni-giessen.de>
Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:12:00 +0200
From:	Marc Dietrich <Marc.Dietrich@...physik.uni-giessen.de>
To:	Terleev Roman <lost@...uz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: too much RX drop packets on kernel 2.6.26 and 2.6.27.x


Hi Terleev,

On Friday 24 October 2008 10:00:07 Terleev Roman wrote:
> hello, linux-kernel.
>
> [1.] One line summary of the problem:
> too much RX drop packets
>
> [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
> "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit
> Ethernet controller" - network is up and working, but too much more drop
> packets:
>
> working int:
> #ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1F:D0:5C:1A:5A
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:7323 errors:0 dropped:7564458177891 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:8388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:688493 (672.3 KiB)  TX bytes:5088993 (4.8 MiB)
>           Interrupt:251 Base address:0x4000

does the attached patch (from git-net) fix it?

To NetDev: Is this already in a stable-branch?

Marc



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