Re: Re: 3.7-rc2 regression : file copied to CIFS-mounted directory corrupted

Eric Dumazet
2012-10-23T09:05:52Z

On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 08:17 +0000, Jongman Heo wrote:

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> FYI, vmxnet3 driver is used for ethernet.

Yes, this driver needs some changes

#define VMXNET3_MAX_TX_BUF_SIZE (1 << 14)

Thats 16KB

As we can now provide up to 32KB fragments we broke something.

vmxnet3_tq_xmit() needs to split large frags into 2 parts.
(And without going to skb_linearize() of course !)

Any volunteer ?

Thanks !