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Date:      Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:05:59 +0100
From:      Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Limits on jumbo mbuf cluster allocation
Message-ID:  <513A2887.2010408@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20794.6692.191898.682241@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
References:  <20793.36593.774795.720959@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <51399926.6020201@freebsd.org> <CAFOYbc=x7U-s70KvcZJdrVP6v-On716qMi=HN1P2Kj%2Bd_K972A@mail.gmail.com> <20794.6692.191898.682241@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>

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On 08.03.2013 18:04, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 00:31:18 -0800, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> said:
>
>> I am not strongly opposed to trying the 4k mbuf pool for all larger sizes,
>> Garrett maybe if you would try that on your system and see if that helps
>> you, I could envision making this a tunable at some point perhaps?
>
> If you can provide a patch I can certainly build it in to our kernel
> and have it ready the next time the production server crashes.  I'd
> like it to be at least a *little* tested by someone else beforehand,
> though.

This should do the trick.

-- 
Andre

Index: dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.c
===================================================================
--- dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.c   (revision 247893)
+++ dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.c   (working copy)
@@ -1120,12 +1120,8 @@
         */
         if (adapter->max_frame_size <= 2048)
                 adapter->rx_mbuf_sz = MCLBYTES;
-       else if (adapter->max_frame_size <= 4096)
+       else
                 adapter->rx_mbuf_sz = MJUMPAGESIZE;
-       else if (adapter->max_frame_size <= 9216)
-               adapter->rx_mbuf_sz = MJUM9BYTES;
-       else
-               adapter->rx_mbuf_sz = MJUM16BYTES;

         /* Prepare receive descriptors and buffers */
         if (ixgbe_setup_receive_structures(adapter)) {



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