Re: [net] e1000: Small packets may get corrupted during padding by HW

[John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>]

On 9/15/2012 6:48 PM, John Fastabend wrote:
> On 9/15/2012 6:25 PM, Dave, Tushar N wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Michał Mirosław [mailto:mirqus@gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 1:45 PM
>>> To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T
>>> Cc: davem@davemloft.net; Dave, Tushar N; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
>>> gospo@redhat.com; sassmann@redhat.com
>>> Subject: Re: [net] e1000: Small packets may get corrupted during padding
>>> by HW
>>>
>>> 2012/9/15 Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>:
>>>> From: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>
>>>>
>>>> On PCI/PCI-X HW, if packet size is less than ETH_ZLEN, packets may get
>>>> corrupted during padding by HW.
>>>> To WA this issue, pad all small packets manually.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>
>>>> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 11 +++++++++++
>>>>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
>>>> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
>>>> index 3bfbb8d..bde337e 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
>>>> @@ -3149,6 +3149,17 @@ static netdev_tx_t e1000_xmit_frame(struct
>>> sk_buff *skb,
>>>>                  return NETDEV_TX_OK;
>>>>          }
>>>>
>>>> +       /* On PCI/PCI-X HW, if packet size is less than ETH_ZLEN,
>>>> +        * packets may get corrupted during padding by HW.
>>>> +        * To WA this issue, pad all small packets manually.
>>>> +        */
>>>> +       if (skb->len < ETH_ZLEN) {
>>>> +               if (skb_pad(skb, ETH_ZLEN - skb->len))
>>>> +                       return NETDEV_TX_OK;
>>>> +               skb->len = ETH_ZLEN;
>>>> +               skb_set_tail_pointer(skb, ETH_ZLEN);
>>>> +       }
>>>> +
>>>
>>> Isn't there a skb_padto() that does just this?
>>
>> Skb_padto calls skb_pad(). Calling skb_pad directly saves some cycles.
>>
>
> How/where?
>

OK maybe you avoid an if case.