network interfaces limited to 32 transmit segments, there
are two known issues.
The more serious one is that for an I/O of slightly less than 64K,
the net device driver prepends an ethernet header, resulting in a
TSO segment slightly larger than 64K. Since m_defrag() copies this
into 33 mbuf clusters, the transmit fails with EFBIG.
A tester indicated observing a similar failure using iSCSI.
The second less critical problem is that the network
device driver must copy the mbuf chain via m_defrag()
(m_collapse() is not sufficient), resulting in measurable overhead.
This patch reduces the default size of if_hw_tsomax
slightly, so that the first issue is avoided.
Fixing the second issue will require a way for the
network device driver to inform tcp_output() that it
is limited to 32 transmit segments.
Reported and tested by: csforgeron@gmail.com, markus.gebert@hostpoint.ch
MFC after: 2 weeks
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