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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: "Huang, Xiong" <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	"Ben Hutchings" <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
	"Anders Boström" <anders@netinsight.net>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"565404@bugs.debian.org" <565404@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#565404: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: atl1e: TSO is broken
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:00:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1364940038.5113.187.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130402211524.GE4924@order.stressinduktion.org>

On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 23:15 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> The error vanishes as soon as I put a gso size limit of MAX_TX_BUF_LEN
> in the driver. MAX_TX_BUF_LEN seems to be arbitrary set to 0x2000. I
> can even raise it to 0x3000 and don't see any tcp retransmits. Do you
> have an advice on how to size this value (e.g. should we switch to the
> windows values)?

This looks like an overflow error...

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
index 7e0a822..7965f89 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
@@ -1569,18 +1569,17 @@ static u16 atl1e_cal_tdp_req(const struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	int i = 0;
 	u16 tpd_req = 1;
-	u16 fg_size = 0;
-	u16 proto_hdr_len = 0;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++) {
-		fg_size = skb_frag_size(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]);
+		u32 fg_size = skb_frag_size(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]);
+
 		tpd_req += ((fg_size + MAX_TX_BUF_LEN - 1) >> MAX_TX_BUF_SHIFT);
 	}
 
 	if (skb_is_gso(skb)) {
 		if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP) ||
 		   (skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type == SKB_GSO_TCPV6)) {
-			proto_hdr_len = skb_transport_offset(skb) +
+			u32 proto_hdr_len = skb_transport_offset(skb) +
 					tcp_hdrlen(skb);
 			if (proto_hdr_len < skb_headlen(skb)) {
 				tpd_req += ((skb_headlen(skb) - proto_hdr_len +

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-02 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100115.142502.968775035345957525.anders@netinsight.net>
     [not found] ` <1263767939.8876.94.camel@localhost>
2010-01-18 14:43   ` Bug#565404: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: atl1e: TSO is broken Anders Boström
2010-01-20  6:03     ` Jie Yang
2010-01-20  9:27       ` Anders Boström
2010-01-21  5:37         ` Jie Yang
2010-01-21 16:42           ` Anders Boström
2010-01-23 15:29             ` Ben Hutchings
2010-01-24  1:36               ` Herbert Xu
2010-01-25  5:41             ` Jie Yang
2010-01-25 15:36               ` Anders Boström
2010-01-26  2:04                 ` Jie Yang
2010-01-26  8:34                   ` Anders Boström
2013-03-31  0:25                     ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-31  0:43                       ` Huang, Xiong
2013-03-31  1:18                       ` Huang, Xiong
2013-03-31  2:10                         ` Ben Hutchings
2013-04-01  2:51                           ` Huang, Xiong
2013-04-02 21:15                             ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-04-02 21:51                               ` Huang, Xiong
2013-04-02 22:19                                 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-04-02 22:23                                   ` Huang, Xiong
2013-04-03  0:00                                     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-04-03  0:12                                       ` Huang, Xiong
2013-04-03  0:43                                         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-04-02 22:00                               ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-04-02 22:15                                 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-04-02 22:34                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-02 23:24                                     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-04-03  0:38                                     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-03-31 21:11                       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-04-02  7:35                       ` Anders Boström
2013-04-02  9:41                         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-04-02 12:22                           ` Anders Boström

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