Re: r8169 and out of space

From: Francois Romieu
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 16:10:28 EST


Alistair John Strachan <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
[..]
> No, we have not diagnosed the cause of the problem, beyond the swiotlb usage.
> I'm adding the r8169 maintainer, linux-net and linux-kernel to CC, to pass on
> your information, I hope you don't mind.

swiotlb fragmentation perhaps ?

Switching the driver to be page based on Rx would help then.

[...]
> > I have a Abit AB9 Pro motherboard with Intel P965 chipset, 4gb of
> > memory, and two onboard r8169.

Which r8169 model exactly ?

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