Re: [PATCH net-next] ax88179_178a: avoid copy of tx tcp packets

David Miller
2013-08-04T04:56:16Z

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 06:52:45 -0700

> On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 06:49 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>>
>> ax88179_tx_fixup() has quite complex code trying to push 8 bytes
>> of control data (len/mss), but fails to do it properly for TCP packets,
>> incurring an extra copy and point of memory allocation failure.
>
> I forgot to say this patch is for net-next, but depends on following fix
> from net tree being applied.
>
> commit 20f0170377264e8449b6987041f0bcc4d746d3ed
> ("usbnet: do not pretend to support SG/TSO")

Thanks for letting me know.

Applied, thanks Eric.