em driver regression

[Jack Vogel]

Bigger question is will it fix Brandon's VirtualBox issue??

Jack


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:

> At 02:17 PM 4/8/2010, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
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>  Try this patch. It should fix the issue. It seems Jack forgot to
>> strip CRC bytes as old em(4) didn't strip it, probably to
>> workaround silicon bug of old em(4) controllers.
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> Thanks! The attached patch does indeed fix the dhclient issue.
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>  It seems there are also TX issues here. The system load is too high
>> and sometimes system is not responsive while TX is in progress.
>> Because I initiated TCP bulk transfers, TSO should reduce CPU load
>> a lot but it didn't so I guess it could also be related watchdog
>> timeouts you've seen. I'll see what can be done.
>>
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> Thanks for looking into that as well!!
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>        ---Mike
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