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Message-ID: <9929d2390901312349p2752f332pdb1ea4e523d184c3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:49:49 -0800 From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: gro: Fix handling of imprecisely split packets On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote: > Hi Jeff: > > Please let me know if the ixgbe problems persist with this patch > against net-next. > > gro: Fix handling of imprecisely split packets > > The commit 89a1b249edcf9be884e71f92df84d48355c576aa (gro: Avoid > copying headers of unmerged packets) only worked for packets > which are either completely linear, completely non-linear, or > packets which exactly split at the boundary between headers and > payload. > > Anything else would cause bits in the header to go missing if > the packet is held by GRO. > > This may have broken drivers such as ixgbe. > > This patch fixes the places that assumed or only worked with > the above cases. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> > Thanks Herbert! I have applied the patch and hopefully I will have more information to you soon. At the very least, I should have updated information for you on Monday. -- Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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