netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/11][TG3]: Fix TSO bugs.

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Date:	Sat, 05 May 2007 11:50:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mchan@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/11][TG3]: Fix TSO bugs.

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 17:51:48 -0700

> [TG3]: Fix TSO bugs.
> 
> 1. 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 and we still need to process it as a TSO
> packet.
> 
> 2. On 5705A3 devices with TSO enabled, the DMA engine can hang due to a
> hardware bug.  This patch avoids the hanging condition by reducing the
> DMA burst size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>

I had a suspicion that TG3 had the same bug BNX2 did. :)

Applied, thanks a lot.
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