Comment 58 for bug 1132477

hyper_ch,

please test the very latest kernel from raring-updates (3.8.0-31.46), which contains the following patch:

commit bc421a035e6cc8420866754af35b355c165c6ed2
Author: Eric Dumazet <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Jul 29 10:24:04 2013 -0700

    atl1c: use custom skb allocator

    BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1221794

    [ Upstream commit 7b70176421993866e616f1cbc4d0dd4054f1bf78 ]

    We had reports ( https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54021 )
    that using high order pages for skb allocations is problematic for atl1c

    We do not know exactly what the problem is, but we suspect that crossing
    4K pages is not well supported by this hardware.

    Use a custom allocator, using page allocator and 2K fragments for
    optimal stack behavior. We might make this allocator generic
    in future kernels.