Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:11:50 +0900 (JST) From: HAMADA Naoki <hamada@astec.co.jp> To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com, sbabkin@dcn.att.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC drivers Message-ID: <199807270211.LAA27031@stone.astec.co.jp> In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Sun, 26 Jul 1998 18:33:47 -0700" <199807270133.SAA13259@antipodes.cdrom.com> References: <199807270133.SAA13259@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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>> smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com writes: >> >Believe me, it still sucks. Search the archives (both the mailing list >> >archives and the PR database) for "no buffer space", and/or "ep0". >> >Basically, the driver is fine for telnet and mail, but wedges under >> >sustained load. I can get it to hang without ever going above 20 kBps >> >(160 kbps). Gimme an Intel EtherExpress. >> >> I carefully looked through the source code to find a bug which results >> mbuf leaks. Could you try this patch? > >Have you guys gone any further on this one? Is the patch OK, or broken? Sorry guys, this patch is wrong. ERR_RX_INCOMPLETE (which should be renamed to `RX_INCOMPLETE') is an indication of not an error but an incoming packet, so you must not remove the incoming packet. NetBSD's ep driver seems to have some kluge for locking problems, but now I want to spend my time to support new 3C905B adapters... - nao To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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