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Date:      Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:02:25 +0300
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Paolo Pisati <piso@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 111230 for review
Message-ID:  <20061207110225.GU32700@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200612062319.kB6NJgsq031755@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200612062319.kB6NJgsq031755@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:19:42PM +0000, Paolo Pisati wrote:
P> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=111230
P> 
P> Change 111230 by piso@piso_newluxor on 2006/12/06 23:19:06
P> 
P> 	To workaround a problem when an mbuf is bigger than MCLBYTES
P> 	(and thus not handled by m_megapullup()), introduce & use
P> 	m_jumbo16pullup() that uses 16k jumbo size cluster.
P> 	
P> 	This problem only showed up on traffic generated on a box with 
P> 	a nic tso enabled.

Paolo,

this isn't a fix. Another application will do write(,, 16k + 1) and
m_jumbo16pullup() will fail again. Please backout it, it is a hack.

We need to fix TSO in such way that real packets, that will be
transmitted to wire, will be passed to pfil handlers.

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.
GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE



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