TCP issue with large packet under RTEMS

[Joel Sherrill]

On 02/09/2011 10:36 AM, João Rasta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using RTEMS 4.10 and GRETH MAC in order to exchange data with a 
> client PC via TCP. I have a LEON-3 based processor architecture. I can 
> successfully attach the GRETH ethernet driver using the RTEMS driver 
> manager and exchange small ammounts of data. However, when i need to 
> transfer an image array (436160Bytes) from the PC to the RTEMS system, 
> the read() call only returns 17508Bytes read instead of 436160Bytes .
>
> The send() directive in the PC side returns the correct number of 
> bytes sent so the problem must be on the RTEMS side. The read buffer 
> has the correct size.
>
> 1) Is there any programmable limitation related to the number of bytes 
> to receive? Since i'm using a TCP socket, there is no apparent reason 
> for byte loss i guess..
>
> 2) In what circumstances should read() from a TCP socket return less 
> bytes than the ones sent?
>
Is there more data available if you do a second read?

Do you have enough buffers allocated to the TCP/IP stack to handle getting
400+K data shoved into the stack quickly before the application can
pull it out?

What happens to the application?  Does it lock up?

I suspect you don't have enough memory allocated to the TCP/IP stack.
>
> Best,
> JM
>


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