netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] bnx2x: LSO code was broken on BE platforms

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Date:	Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:14:53 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <benh@...ian.org>
To:	Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@...adcom.com>
Cc:	Dave Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev list <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] bnx2x: LSO code was broken on BE platforms

On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 13:43 +0200, Vladislav Zolotarov wrote:
> Make the LSO code work on BE platforms: parsing_data field of 
> a parsing BD (PBD) for 57712 was improperly composed which made FW read wrong 
> values for TCP header's length and offset and, as a result, the corresponding 
> PCI device was performing bad DMA reads triggering EEH.
[...]

This fix looks like it should go into the stable/longterm series.  Since
this driver has changed a lot since 2.6.32, you would need to provide a
backported patch for that.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Debian Developer and kernel team member


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