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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2017 17:10:59 +0200
From:      Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
Cc:        Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mbuf_jumbo_9k & iSCSI failing
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> On 26 Jun 2017, at 15:13, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
> I think it is not mlxen specific problem, we have the same symptoms with
> ixgbe(4) driver too. To avoid the problem we have patches that are
> disable using of 9k mbufs, and instead only use 4k mbufs.

Another workaround is to decrease the MTU until 9K mbufs are not more used.
On my systems it gives a 4072 bytes MTU.
It solved the issue without having to reboot.
Of course it's just a workaround, as decreasing MTU increases overhead...



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