> From: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:50:46 -0700
>
> > For just messing about, might it be possible to tweak the socket
> > buffer sizes and tcp_tso_win_divisor to kludge things for a short
> > while? Couldn't ship that way certainly, but assuming
> Peter's going
> > to get his broken hardware fixed it might let him limp
> along until then.
>
> TCP dynamically grows the socket buffer sizes unless the
> application explicitly sets them via setsockopt() and the
> limits imposed in those cases are controlled by
> tcp_{,r,w}mem[] sysctls. Decreasing those will kill
> performance exactly for the cases this person cares about.
>
> No, the only way to deal with this is to GSO segment incoming
> frames inside of the driver when they exceed the HW limits.
Thanks Dave and Rick. I'll mess with this and make my driver happy
again.
Cheers,
-PJ Waskiewicz
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