netdev - Re: Bug#565404: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: atl1e: TSO is broken

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Message-ID: <20130402221520.GF4924@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Wed, 3 Apr 2013 00:15:20 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"Huang, Xiong" <xiong@....qualcomm.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Anders Boström <anders@...insight.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"565404@...s.debian.org" <565404@...s.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#565404: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: atl1e: TSO is broken

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 03:00:38PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 23:15 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> 
> > The error vanishes as soon as I put a gso size limit of MAX_TX_BUF_LEN
> > in the driver. MAX_TX_BUF_LEN seems to be arbitrary set to 0x2000. I
> > can even raise it to 0x3000 and don't see any tcp retransmits. Do you
> > have an advice on how to size this value (e.g. should we switch to the
> > windows values)?
> 
> This looks like an overflow error...

Thanks for your input, Eric.

I am limited in my time to work on this today but nontheless just tested
your patch without any of my changes and count a lot of TcpRetransSegs
again. Either there is really some hardware limitation or another
overflow.

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