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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: usbnet transmit path problems
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:11:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378894312.28160.15.camel@linux-fkkt.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AE90C24D6B3A694183C094C60CF0A2F6026B7325@saturn3.aculab.com>

On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 10:10 +0100, David Laight wrote:
> I've been looking at the code in drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c that
> processes tx data after the tx_fixup() function has run.
> 
> The code currently looks like:

> 1) I can't see where skb_linearize() gets called if 'can_dma_sg' is unset.

That is the job of subdrivers.

> 2) If 'length % dev->maxpacket == 0' for a multi-fragment packet then
>    the extra byte isn't added correctly (the code probably falls off
>    the end of the scatter-gather list).

Indeed. Ming Lei, should usbnet handle this in the sg case or better
leave it to the subdriver you introduced this for?

> 4) I read that USB3 has a different scheme for terminating bulk data
>    that is a multiple of the packet size.
>    Does this mean that the pad byte isn't needed for USB3?
>    (Or are USB3 controllers/targets just as buggy?)

We don't have enough examples to tell.

	Regards
		Oliver

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-11 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-11  9:10 usbnet transmit path problems David Laight
2013-09-11 10:11 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2013-09-11 11:34   ` Ming Lei
2013-09-11 12:56     ` David Laight
2013-09-11 15:11       ` Ming Lei
     [not found]         ` <CACVXFVN6ZHLesrsMVNMWrikRs1mMbk=aZD9qZybNn1gB7aFTZQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-11 16:05           ` David Laight
2013-09-12  1:56             ` Ming Lei
     [not found]               ` <CACVXFVNrbeEthBH0vGKN2gymoSwu3jTkcGicKNU1-Oez8bNhvg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-16  8:13                 ` Oliver Neukum
     [not found]                   ` <1379319193.15916.1.camel-B2T3B9s34ElbnMAlSieJcQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-16 12:38                     ` Ming Lei
2013-09-11 13:00   ` David Laight

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