netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net] bnx2x: Prevent FW assertion when using Vxlan

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Date:	Fri, 18 Dec 2015 16:34:55 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com,
	Ariel.Elior@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] bnx2x: Prevent FW assertion when using Vxlan

From: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:42:12 +0200

> FW has a rare corner case in which a fragmented packet using lots
> of frags would not be linearized, causing the FW to assert while trying
> to transmit the packet.
> 
> To prevent this, we need to make sure the window of fragements containing
> MSS worth of data contains 1 BD less than for regular packets due to
> the additional parsing BD.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <Ariel.Elior@...gic.com>

Applied, thanks.
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