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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:57:48 +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 15:36, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru> wrote:
>=20
> On 26.06.2017 16:29, Ben RUBSON wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 26 Jun 2017, at 15:25, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru> =
wrote:
>>>=20
>>> On 26.06.2017 16:27, Ben RUBSON wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>>> On 26 Jun 2017, at 15:13, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru> =
wrote:
>>>>>=20
>>>>> 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.
>>>>=20
>>>> Interesting feedback Andrey, thank you !
>>>> The problem may be then "general".
>>>> So you still use large MTU (>=3D9000) but only allocating 4k mbufs, =
as a workaround ?
>>>=20
>>> Yes.
>>=20
>> Is it a kernel patch or a driver/ixgbe patch ?
>=20
> I attached it.

Thank you !
The idea of new sysctls to enable/disable the workaround is nice.
Should be easy to modify to use with mlx4_en, waiting for Ryan specific =
work on this driver.=20

I found a similar issue, reported date : 2013-10-28
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D183381

FreeBSD certainly needs a general solid patch !=



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