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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:09:42 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: bhutchings@...arflare.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] sfc: Pad packets to 33 bytes to prevent TX packet parser lockup From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.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@...arflare.com> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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