netdev - Re: gro: Fix handling of imprecisely split packets

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Date:	Sun, 1 Feb 2009 01:29:42 -0800
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gro: Fix handling of imprecisely split packets

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:25 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:49:49 -0800
>
>> 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.
>
> Meanwhile I'll toss Herbert's patch into net-next-2.6
> --

Sounds good to me, thanks Dave.

-- 
Cheers,
Jeff
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