On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Shane Shrybman wrote:
> I applied these changes to 2.4.0-test10-pre3 and I got these messages in
> the system log:
>
> Oct 15 11:24:05 mars kernel: __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed.
> Oct 15 11:24:05 mars kernel: eth0: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.
> Oct 15 11:24:05 mars kernel: __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed.
> Oct 15 11:24:05 mars kernel: eth0: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.
> Oct 15 11:24:05 mars kernel: __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed.
> Oct 15 11:24:05 mars kernel: eth0: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.
>
> And then a spontaneous reboot. :( Which is what I have been
> seeing with this driver for a while.
What happens if you try the following patch instead? The original
out-of-memory behaviour seems a bit bogus to me. This patch is untested,
but should work.
(After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
of having bough one. How they could leave out a description of the receive
ring buffer in the spec is truly amazing. I wonder if the status=0 case I
encoutered was just a case of getting lost in the ring buffer.)
/Tobias
--- 8139too.c.orig Sun Oct 15 01:49:47 2000
+++ 8139too.c Sun Oct 15 22:23:34 2000
@@ -1736,8 +1736,11 @@
/* if Rx err received, Rx process gets reset, so
* we abort any further Rx processing
*/
- if (rx_status &
- (RxBadSymbol | RxRunt | RxTooLong | RxCRCErr | RxBadAlign)) {
+ if (pkt_size < 0 || !(rx_status & RxStatusOK)) {
+ if (pkt_size < 0)
+ printk (KERN_WARNING
+ "%s: Negative packet size received (%04x).\n",
+ dev->name, pkt_size);
rtl8139_rx_err (rx_status, dev, tp, ioaddr);
return;
}
@@ -1752,23 +1755,23 @@
*/
skb = dev_alloc_skb (pkt_size + 2);
- if (skb == NULL) {
+ if (skb) {
+ skb->dev = dev;
+ skb_reserve (skb, 2); /* 16 byte align the IP fields. */
+
+ eth_copy_and_sum (skb, &rx_ring[ring_offset + 4], pkt_size, 0);
+ skb_put (skb, pkt_size);
+
+ skb->protocol = eth_type_trans (skb, dev);
+ netif_rx (skb);
+ tp->stats.rx_bytes += pkt_size;
+ tp->stats.rx_packets++;
+ } else {
printk (KERN_WARNING
"%s: Memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n",
dev->name);
tp->stats.rx_dropped++;
- break;
}
- skb->dev = dev;
- skb_reserve (skb, 2); /* 16 byte align the IP fields. */
-
- eth_copy_and_sum (skb, &rx_ring[ring_offset + 4], pkt_size, 0);
- skb_put (skb, pkt_size);
-
- skb->protocol = eth_type_trans (skb, dev);
- netif_rx (skb);
- tp->stats.rx_bytes += pkt_size;
- tp->stats.rx_packets++;
cur_rx = (cur_rx + rx_size + 4 + 3) & ~3;
RTL_W16_F (RxBufPtr, cur_rx - 16);
-
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