mbuf_jumbo_9k & iSCSI failing

Ben RUBSON ben.rubson at gmail.com
Mon Jun 26 13:29:51 UTC 2017


> On 26 Jun 2017, at 15:25, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
> On 26.06.2017 16:27, Ben RUBSON wrote:
>> 
>>> On 26 Jun 2017, at 15:13, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at 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.
>> 
>> Interesting feedback Andrey, thank you !
>> The problem may be then "general".
>> So you still use large MTU (>=9000) but only allocating 4k mbufs, as a workaround ?
> 
> Yes.

Is it a kernel patch or a driver/ixgbe patch ?


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