From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jesper@krogh.cc, Matheos.Worku@Sun.COM, yhlu.kernel@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NIU - Sun Neptune 10g - Transmit timed out reset (2.6.24)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 19:14:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080522181420.GB28241@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080522.104145.193700531.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:32:07 +0200
>
> > Does this mean that I can expect every 10G card to have this limitation
> > under Linux?
>
> For now, yes. The transmit path itself in the generic network
> device layer is where the serialization comes from.
This is true in the general case, but can be substantially mitigated
by segmentation offload. Unfortunately GSO doesn't help much as the
overhead of allocating the extra skbs is fairly high.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-22 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-07 18:23 Jesper Krogh
2008-05-07 18:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 21:15 ` David Miller
2008-05-09 18:32 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-09 21:32 ` David Miller
2008-05-09 21:59 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-09 22:07 ` David Miller
2008-05-09 22:13 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-09 22:09 ` Matheos Worku
2008-05-09 22:15 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-09 22:36 ` Matheos Worku
2008-05-09 22:43 ` Matheos Worku
2008-05-09 22:46 ` David Miller
2008-05-09 23:10 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-09 23:21 ` Matheos Worku
2008-05-09 22:45 ` David Miller
2008-05-22 16:32 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-22 17:15 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-22 17:41 ` David Miller
2008-05-22 18:14 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2008-05-22 18:28 ` David Miller
2008-06-01 7:25 ` Andrey Panin
2008-06-01 16:01 ` David Miller
2008-05-09 22:20 ` Rick Jones
2008-05-09 22:48 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-09 23:03 ` Rick Jones
2008-05-09 23:13 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-09 23:33 ` Rick Jones
2008-05-09 23:08 ` David Dillow
2008-05-10 6:22 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-10 15:53 ` Roland Dreier
2008-05-12 6:49 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-10 2:20 ` Bill Fink
2008-05-10 11:01 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-11 4:34 ` David Miller
2008-05-11 5:44 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-11 6:08 ` David Miller
2008-05-11 9:47 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-12 6:52 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-26 19:03 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-26 19:33 ` David Miller
2008-05-26 19:39 ` David Miller
2008-05-26 20:54 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-26 22:15 ` David Miller
2008-05-26 22:21 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-26 22:30 ` David Miller
2008-05-27 6:19 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-05-28 1:18 ` Matheos Worku
2008-05-29 5:34 ` David Miller
2008-05-30 0:14 ` Matheos Worku
2008-05-30 7:00 ` David Miller
2008-06-16 18:09 ` Matheos Worku
2008-06-16 18:21 ` Jesper Krogh
2008-06-18 0:02 ` David Miller
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