Re: PROBLEM: too much RX drop packets on kernel 2.6.26 and 2.6.27.x

Hi Terleev,

On Friday 24 October 2008 10:00:07 Terleev Roman wrote:

hello, linux-kernel.

[1.] One line summary of the problem:
too much RX drop packets

[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
"Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit
Ethernet controller" - network is up and working, but too much more drop
packets:

working int:
#ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1F:D0:5C:1A:5A
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7323 errors:0 dropped:7564458177891 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:688493 (672.3 KiB)  TX bytes:5088993 (4.8 MiB)
          Interrupt:251 Base address:0x4000

does the attached patch (from git-net) fix it?

To NetDev: Is this already in a stable-branch?

Marc