From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] sfc: Pad packets to 33 bytes to prevent TX packet parser lockup
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:09:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090321.190942.86384309.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237591540.3217.6.camel@achroite>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:25:39 +0000
> The packet parser used in the TX data path for locating checksum
> fields can lose synchronisation with the TX queue manager when
> handling packets that look like IPv4 but are too short (17-32 bytes).
> Work around this by padding to 33 bytes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-22 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-20 23:25 [PATCH 1/5] sfc: Pad packets to 33 bytes to prevent TX packet parser lockup Ben Hutchings
2009-03-20 23:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] sfc: Work around unreliable legacy interrupt status Ben Hutchings
2009-03-22 2:09 ` David Miller
2009-03-20 23:26 ` [PATCH 3/5] sfc: Remove unused private PCI register definitions Ben Hutchings
2009-03-22 2:09 ` David Miller
2009-03-20 23:27 ` [PATCH 4/5] sfc: Optimise falcon_writel_page_locked() for page > 0 Ben Hutchings
2009-03-22 2:10 ` David Miller
2009-03-20 23:30 ` [PATCH 5/5] sfc: Implement adaptive IRQ moderation Ben Hutchings
2009-03-22 2:10 ` David Miller
2009-03-22 2:09 ` David Miller [this message]
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