Bug#558426: atl1e performance problems with native IPv6

[Joerg Pareigis <mlist@pareigis.de>]

> I prepared my own patch and tested that.  However, our general policy is
> to apply patches that were accepted upstream, so in the end I applied
> Jie Yang's patch.  The critical change is to remove the line
> 'netdev->features |= NETIF_F_TSO6;' which tells the kernel that the
> driver supports TSO for IPv6.  Once that is done, the other code will no
> longer be used.
>
> Are you sure the patch was actually applied when you tested?
>
> Ben.
>   
I'm not shure that my act was correct.

So here is what I'm done:
1) Install linux-source-2.6.26
2) Due to Jie's patch don't work with the patch-command, I removed the 
appropriate lines by hand in atl1e_main.c
3) For later check purposes I changed the DRV_VERSION  to "1.0.0.7-NAPI_JP"
4) make modules
5) copy /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko to 
/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko
6) reboot the machine
7) modinfo atl1e
   filename:       
/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko
   version:        1.0.0.7-NAPI_JP

The IPv6 pakets are still truncated.

--
Joerg.