netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] be2net: Fix to avoid a crash seen on PPC with LRO and Jumbo frames.

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Message-Id: <20090628.173500.193717467.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:35:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ajitk@...verengines.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] be2net: Fix to avoid a crash seen on PPC with
 LRO and Jumbo frames.

From: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@...verengines.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:21:07 +0530

> While testing the driver on PPC, we ran into a crash with LRO, Jumbo frames.
> With CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES configured (a default in PPC), MAX_SKB_FRAGS drops to 3 and we were crossing the array limits on skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[]. 
> Now we coalesce the frags from the same physical page into one slot in 
> skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[] and go to the next index when the frag is from 
> different physical page.
> 
> This patch is against the net-2.6 tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@...verengines.com>

This patch looks good, applied, thanks!
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