netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix GRO for multiple page fragments

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Message-Id: <1239977010.5297.19.camel@deadeye.i.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:03:30 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix GRO for multiple page fragments

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 17:14 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:27:59AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > I think the code still isn't right after your changes.
> > 
> > The intent seems to be to append frags from 'info' into the SKB,
> > so that it works even if the SKB already has some frags.
> > 
> > And being that cxgb3 is pretty well tested with GRO I'm suspicious
> > even moreso :-)
> > 
> > Herbert?
> 
> Ah, I'd replied via private email to Ben.  This whole loop no
> longer exists in net-next.  As for 2.6.30, the existing loop
> should be correct.

The loop is iterating forward, not backward, so why initialise frag to
point to the last fragment?

Ben.

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