netdev - Re: [net] e1000: Small packets may get corrupted during padding by HW

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Message-Id: <20120917.230300.653531213751776624.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:03:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alexander.duyck@...il.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com,
	tushar.n.dave@...el.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com,
	mirqus@...il.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net] e1000: Small packets may get corrupted during padding by
 HW

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:01:06 -0700

> Since MAX_TCP_HEADER starts at 160 the likelihood of it not getting
> at least 16 bytes of padding is pretty low.

I know it's not on many people's radar, but with SLOB it will happen
a lot probably.
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