From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757248AbYAJVK1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:10:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753458AbYAJVKT (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:10:19 -0500 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:53589 "EHLO electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752463AbYAJVKR (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:10:17 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:57:27 +0100 From: Francois Romieu To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: Nathan Grennan , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-net@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: r8169 and out of space Message-ID: <20080110205727.GA8692@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mail-Followup-To: Francois Romieu , Alistair John Strachan , Nathan Grennan , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-net@vger.kernel.org References: <478655B6.6010406@cygnusx-1.org> <200801101920.47041.alistair@devzero.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200801101920.47041.alistair@devzero.co.uk> X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alistair John Strachan : [..] > 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 ? -- Ueimor