From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mchan@broadcom.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, jk@blackdown.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] tg3: Add TSO workaround using GSO
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:16:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060629.201608.90120890.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1151630967.21798.20.camel@rh4>
From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:29:27 -0700
> Use GSO to workaround a rare TSO bug on some chips. This hardware
> bug may be triggered when the TSO header size is greater than 80
> bytes. When this condition is detected in a TSO packet, the driver
> will use GSO to segment the packet to workaround the hardware bug.
>
> Thanks to Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de> for reporting the
> problem and collecting traces to help debug the problem.
>
> And thanks to Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> for providing
> the GSO mechanism that happens to be the perfect workaround for this
> problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Looks really nice. Applied, thanks a lot.
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2006-06-30 1:29 [PATCH 4/5] tg3: Add TSO workaround using GSO Michael Chan
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