netdev - Re: [PATCH] be2net: fix bug in rx page posting

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:52:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sathyap@...verengines.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] be2net: fix bug in rx page posting

From: Sathya Perla <sathyap@...verengines.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:26:17 +0530

> Pages are posted to the rxq in such a way that more than one frag
> can share the page. The last frag that uses the page unmaps the
> page.  In the case when a page is not fully used (due to lack of space in rxq)
> the last frag that uses the page is not being set as a "last_page_user";
> instead, the next frag in the rxq is incorrectly being set.
> 
> The fix has also been tested on ppc64 with 64k pages...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathyap@...verengines.com>

Applied to net-2.6
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