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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mlcreech@gmail.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Gianfar TCP checksumming broken in 2.6.35+
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:34:05 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101118.113405.116386129.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=fZnj94761L_=1DpPAErVG8EHESObtd+d5xJfK@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Matthew L. Creech" <mlcreech@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:31:46 -0500

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:06 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> =
wrote:
>>
>> Can someone please follow up Matthew to get this bug resolved? =A0It=
 has
>> been sitting around for a long time.
>>
>> I suspect the gianfar driver, for these chip revisions, will need to=

>> do a software checksum when the offset matches the criteria mentione=
d
>> in the errata above.
>>
> =

> I added a patch for this which fixes our affected systems; however, I=

> don't know if this is a good way to perform checksum offloading, I
> just kind of dug around until I found a function that seemed like it
> worked.  :)  Patch against 2.6.36 is below for reference.

It looks fine except I would limit the software checksum to the
exact conditions listed in the errate.

Otherwise this is going to hurt performance and cpu utilization
quite a bit.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-02 22:29 Gianfar TCP checksumming broken in 2.6.35+ Matthew L. Creech
2010-11-18 17:06 ` David Miller
2010-11-18 19:31   ` Matthew L. Creech
2010-11-18 19:34     ` David Miller [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-18  7:56 Alex Dubov

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