memory problem with fec on 8250

[Eugene Surovegin]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:45:54AM +0100, Wojciech Kromer wrote:
> >
> >>>i have some problems with using fec device on my custom 8250 board
> >>>while sending a lot of data (at least 300MB) through this device causes
> >>>lack of memory
> >>>sending same amount of data through loopback works fine
> >>>

[snip]

> ==== at begining =========================================
> skbuff_head_cache    131    192    160    8    8    1
> size-2048              5    178   2048    3   89    1
>
> ===after some time (ftp put ~75MB) ================================
>
> skbuff_head_cache  16857  16872    160  703  703    1
> size-2048          16749  16798   2048 8382 8399    1

It looks like skb leaks in the driver. Probably in TX path.

Could you send me by private e-mail source code for ethernet driver in
question or provide a URL.

I'm not a 8250 guy, but I'll try to look at it :)

Eugene.


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