netdev - Re: [PATCH 2.6.28] cxgb3 - Fix LRO misalignment

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Message-ID: <496FE973.1060106@hp.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:57:07 -0800
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, swise@...ngridcomputing.com,
	leedom@...lsio.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.28] cxgb3 - Fix LRO misalignment

Divy Le Ray wrote:
> From: Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
> 
> The lro manager's frag_align_pad setting was missing,
> leading to misaligned access to the skb passed up
> to the stack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>

I have tried this in a tree I have, and where I was once seeing unaligned access 
messages on an ia64 system with LRO enabled, now I see none.

Tested-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>

rick jones
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