netdev - Re: r8169 MTU greater than 1500 causes corruption for other controllers

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Message-ID: <20080821152025.GA29610@tophat.atxconsulting.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:20:27 -0400
From:	Timothy J Fontaine <tjfontaine@...consulting.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: r8169 MTU greater than 1500 causes corruption for other
	controllers

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:43:50PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi> :
> [...]
> > Hmm, there was no explanation why the tp->rx_buf_sz to pkt_size change
> > was made in that commit (I have no idea whether those sizes have to match 
> > to other places that use tp->rx_buf_sz)...
> 
> Because there is no need to sync data that has not been used ?
> 
> Timothy, could you check if the patch below does the job too ? It should
> fix at least one pci_map / pci_unmap unbalance.
> 
> @@ -2789,10 +2789,10 @@ static int rtl8169_rx_interrupt(struct net_device *dev,
>  
>  			if (rtl8169_try_rx_copy(&skb, tp, pkt_size, addr)) {
>  				pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(pdev, addr,
>  					pkt_size, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
>  				rtl8169_mark_to_asic(desc, tp->rx_buf_sz);
>  			} else {
> -				pci_unmap_single(pdev, addr, pkt_size,
> +				pci_unmap_single(pdev, addr, tp->rx_buf_sz,
>  						 PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
>  				tp->Rx_skbuff[entry] = NULL;
>  			}
> 
> -- 
> Ueimor

Yup, this patch also works.

tjfontaine

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