On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 06:53:57PM -0800, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > Hi all, I've identified you as people who have at some point in the past > emailed one of the Linux lists with problems with e1000 and > sk_forward_alloc. It seems to be fairly widespread, but only seems to > have appeared with recent kernel changes (after 2.6.12...) > > What I need from you is a reproducible test, and some information. I > have never been able to reproduce this, and I'm trying to isolate the > problem a bit. What motherboards are you using? What seems to cause > this problem? Are you all using iptables? Are you all routing? From > the reports I assume none of you are using an 82571/2/3 (pci express)
Unfortunately it happens randomly, so I have no reproducible test. Dell 1850s and 2850s here, no iptables, routing, or pci express. lspci reports: 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05) > As far as I know e1000 has the same requirement as tg3 and some others > where we have to modify the header of the skb in the case of transmits > using TSO. I don't see anywhere else that the driver modifies the skb. > Tomorrow I'll generate a patch to try a more paranoid copying of the > skb, I hope some of you can test. I'll certainly try it as long as it doesn't blow things up :) Phil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
