Re: [PATCH] myr10ge: again fix lro_gen_skb() alignment

[Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com>]

David Miller wrote:
> From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:09:37 +0200
>
>   
>> Add LRO alignment initially committed in 621544eb8c3beaa859c75850f816dd9b056a00a3
>> and removed in 0dcffac1a329be69bab0ac604bf7283737108e68 during conversion to
>> multi-slice.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
>>     
>
> Applied, thanks.
>
> Please, in the future, add the header string of the commit message
> when referencing GIT commits.  When this patch is added to the -stable
> kernel or similar the GIT commit ideas might be different and it
> will be impossible for someone reading your commit message to find
> the referenced commit using only the SHA ID.
>   

I guess we need to send this patch to the stable maintainers since it
should affect 2.6.27, .28 and .29.

> Also, it would great to get this driver converted over to GRO,
> such bugs like this one aren't even possible with GRO :-)
>   

It looks like nobody complains about GRO bugs or performance-problems
anymore so we might indeed look at converting myri10ge for 2.6.31.

Is there a good summary somewhere of why GRO is better, and how to
actually convert drivers?

Brice