From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, gospo@redhat.com,
alexander.h.duyck@intel.com
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 2/3] igb: prevent skb_over panic w/ mtu smaller than 1K
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:53:41 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090131.005341.30242349.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090131005404.1466.30069.stgit@lost.foo-projects.org>
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:54:04 -0800
> A panic has been observed with frame sizes smaller than 1K. This has been
> root caused to the hardware spanning larger frames across multiple buffers
> and then reporting the original frame size in the first descriptor. To
> prevent this we can enable set the LPE bit which in turn will restrict
> packet sizes to those set in the RLPML register.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-31 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-31 0:53 [net-2.6 PATCH 1/3] igb: Fix DCA errors and do not use context index for 82576 Jeff Kirsher
2009-01-31 0:54 ` [net-2.6 PATCH 2/3] igb: prevent skb_over panic w/ mtu smaller than 1K Jeff Kirsher
2009-01-31 8:53 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-01-31 0:54 ` [net-2.6 PATCH 3/3] igb: fix link reporting when using sgmii Jeff Kirsher
2009-01-31 8:53 ` David Miller
2009-01-31 8:53 ` [net-2.6 PATCH 1/3] igb: Fix DCA errors and do not use context index for 82576 David Miller
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