On 10/31/06 11:28 AM, "Jason Thorpe" <thorpej@shagadelic.org> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 30, 2006, at 9:39 PM, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
>> In any case, it should be trivial to deal with this using a quirk in
>> the pcn driver -- we can look for the OUI for VMware in the MAC
>> address, and simply drop the number of Tx segments that bus_dma will
>> create for a packet to 15 (from 16).  I think it's pretty rare that
>> we bump up against the limit anyway (the driver can even gather
>> these statistics for you).
> 
> Please try the attached patch (against -current).  This should work in
> 3.x, as well -- just remove the call to prop_dictionary_set_bool() in
> that case.
> 

3.1_RC4 kernel with the patch (prop_dictionary_set_bool call removed) still
failed.  I can do incremental testing.  The value of '4' works well but is
presumably not optimal.  Do I next try a value of '14' assuming an
off-by-one error or jump to another value?

peter