Bug#558426: atl1e performance problems with native IPv6

[Joerg Pareigis <mlist@pareigis.de>]

Ben Hutchings schrieb:
> On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 02:29 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>   
> > On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 21:08 +0100, Joerg Pareigis wrote:
> >     
> > > Package: linux-image-2.6-686
> > > Version: 2.6.26-19lenny2
> > > Module:  atl1e
> > >
> > > IPv4 traffic runs perfect with 100Mbit/s.
> > > Receiving data with IPv6 is also OK.
> > > But sending data is horrible like a 9600 modem line.
> > > tcpdump on the receiving host says: IP6 truncated-ip6 - 1426 bytes missing!
> > > see below.
> > >       
> > [...]
> >
> > If you run 'ethtool -K eth0 tso off' (assuming the Atheros adapter is
> > named 'eth0'), does IPv6 traffic work properly?
> >     
>
> Never mind, this driver does not support that command (this is another
> bug).  My wife's computer has one of these network adapters so I will
> experiment on that.
>
> Ben.
Hi Ben,
at first: Thanks to all of you.
But, did you test the patch from Jie?
I did, but nothing happens. Exactly the same as before :-(
Can you confirm this?
--
Joerg.