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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Kieran Mansley <kmansley@solarflare.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCPBacklogDrops during aggressive bursts of traffic
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 18:34:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337099641.8512.1102.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337099368.1689.47.camel@kjm-desktop.uk.level5networks.com>

On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 17:29 +0100, Kieran Mansley wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 16:56 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > 
> > Please try latest kernels, this is probably 'fixed'
> 
> I've just tried with 3.4.0-rc7 and the problem is still reproducible.
> It's perhaps harder to reproduce than on 3.3.6 but still there.
> 
> > What network driver are you using ? 
> 
> The receiver is using the sfc driver that is included in the kernel
> build, together with an SFC 9020 NIC. 
> 
> Kieran
> 

MTU ?

What is typical skb->truesize of skb given to stack in RX path ?

If drivers use PAGE_SIZE fragments, then you are more likely to hit
limit.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-15 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-15 14:38 TCPBacklogDrops during aggressive bursts of traffic Kieran Mansley
2012-05-15 14:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-15 15:00   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-15 16:29   ` Kieran Mansley
2012-05-15 16:34     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-05-15 16:47       ` Ben Hutchings
2012-05-15 17:01         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-15 17:23           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 16:31           ` Kieran Mansley
2012-05-17 16:37             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-18 15:45               ` Kieran Mansley
2012-05-18 15:49                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-18 15:53                   ` Kieran Mansley
2012-05-18 18:40                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-22  8:20               ` Kieran Mansley
2012-05-22  9:25                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-22  9:30                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-22 15:09                     ` Kieran Mansley
2012-05-22 16:12                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-22 16:32                         ` Kieran Mansley
2012-05-22 16:45                           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-22 20:54                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-23  9:44                               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-23 12:09                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-23 16:04                                   ` Alexander Duyck
2012-05-23 16:12                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-23 16:39                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-23 17:10                                         ` Alexander Duyck
2012-05-23 21:19                                           ` Alexander Duyck
2012-05-23 21:37                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-23 22:03                                               ` Alexander Duyck
2012-05-23 16:58                                       ` Alexander Duyck
2012-05-23 17:24                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-23 17:57                                           ` Alexander Duyck
2012-05-23 17:34                                 ` David Miller
2012-05-23 17:46                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-23 17:57                                     ` David Miller

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