netdev - Re: 2.6.20.7 mss negotiation and path mtu discovery mostly broken?

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Message-Id: <20070503.172358.07643741.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 03 May 2007 17:23:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mchan@...adcom.com
Cc:	bristuccia@...rentnetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20.7 mss negotiation and path mtu discovery mostly broken?

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 16:24:20 -0700

> [BNX2]: Fix TSO problem with small MSS.
> 
> Remove the check for skb->len greater than MTU when doing TSO.  When
> the destination has a smaller MSS than the source, a TSO packet may
> be smaller than the MTU at the source and we still need to process it
> as a TSO packet.
> 
> Thanks to Brian Ristuccia <bristuccia@...rentnetworks.com> for
> reporting the problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>

Applied, thanks Michael.
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