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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:14:38 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: jesse.brandeburg@...el.com Cc: sri@...ibm.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] IFix IPv6 GSO type checks in Intel ethernet drivers From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:11:00 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) > > > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > >> Found this problem when testing IPv6 from a KVM guest to a remote >> host via e1000e device on the host. >> The following patch fixes the check for IPv6 GSO packet in Intel >> ethernet drivers to use skb_is_gso_v6(). SKB_GSO_DODGY is also set >> when packets are forwarded from a guest. >> >> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com > > Looks fine, thanks! The current code in net-next and 2.6.32 both have > exactly the same condition in skb_is_gso_v6, so I'm not sure that this > patch alone will fix any issues, FYI. If this patch is part of another > set or dependent upon another for the actual change in behavior mentioned > in the comment, I think it should be noted or sent in a series. > > Ack-ed by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com> Just FYI, I'm assuming I'll get this via Jeff eventually. -- 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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