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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] tg3: Add TSO workaround using GSO
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:16:08 -0700 (PDT)
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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.