linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vmxnet3: must split too big fragments

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Message-ID: <428233753.11168915.1351534639870.JavaMail.root@vmware.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:17:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@...are.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jongman heo <jongman.heo@...sung.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmxnet3: must split too big fragments



----- Original Message -----
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> vmxnet3 has a 16Kbytes limit per tx descriptor, that happened to work
> as long as we provided PAGE_SIZE fragments.
> 
> Our stack can now build larger fragments, so we need to split them to
> the 16kbytes boundary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Reported-by: jongman heo <jongman.heo@...sung.com>
> Tested-by: jongman heo <jongman.heo@...sung.com>
> Cc: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c |   65
>  +++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks for the patch Eric.

Signed-of-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com>
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