Subject: Re: sk(4) and jumbo frames
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Sean Davis <dive-nb@endersgame.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/12/2006 08:49:21
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:26:19PM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> Sean Davis wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 07:30:48PM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:  
> >   
> >> If you'll peruse the tech-net archives, I posted some patches to sk(4) a
> >> while back to support jumbo frames.  I only ever got one person
> >> responding that he tested them...  :)
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Could you give me a starting point? I'm mainly messing with this from work,
> > on machines at home. Do I need to go -current, is -3_0 good enough?
> >   
> 
> I don't have time to check tonight, but they _should_ apply (or very
> nearly so) to 3.0_STABLE.  If not, I can cook up a new patch later.
> http://www.tastylime.net/netbsd/sk_jumbo.diff (I should have reposted
> them before, for those interested)
> 
> I haven't committed them yet because brad@openbsd (the original author
> whose work I ported) indicated that this code leaked memory on OpenBSD,
> and a patch was needed to fix that.  I haven't been able to duplicate
> the leak, and the patch yields a non-working kernel, so I wanted some
> more eyes on it before committing...
> 
> +j
> 
> 

It did apply cleanly, once I got (thanks sub @ irc) a copy of the patch that
wasn't from the PR (since the PR had a bunch of =20s mixed in).

So far, seems to be working just fine. Thanks! :)

-Sean