linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] cxgb

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Date:	Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:26:15 -0800
From:	Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
CC:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] cxgb - driver fixes.

Ben Greear wrote:
> Divy Le Ray wrote:
>> Jeff,
>>
>> I'm submitting a patch series for inclusion in 2.6.24 for the cxgb 
>> driver.
>> The patches are built against Linus'git tree.
>>
>> Here is a brief description:
>> - Ensure that GSO skbs have enough headroom before encapsulating them,
>> - Fix a crash in NAPI mode,
>> - Fix statistics accounting and report.
>
> We ran pktgen overnight on 2.6.23 with patch 1 and 3 applied (patch 2
> not needed on .23 it seems) and it was stable at about 1.5Gbps 
> bi-directional
> using 1500 MTU sized frames.
>
> We'll run some more tests with user-space TCP & UDP today, but it 
> looks good
> so far.
>
> Perhaps these patches should be considered for .23 stable as well?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>

Yes, patches 1 and 3 could be considered for .22 and .23-stable, along 
with the previous fix:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7de6af0f23b25df8da9719ecae1916b669d0b03d

Cheers,
Divy
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