netdev - RE: [PATCH v2 net 2/2] tg3: Fix data corruption on 5725 with TSO

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Message-ID: <1368631423.4519.32.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Wed, 15 May 2013 08:23:43 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
Cc:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
	Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@...adcom.com>,
	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 net 2/2] tg3: Fix data corruption on 5725 with TSO

On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 08:12 -0700, Michael Chan wrote:

> 
> We will discard the packet if that happens.  I think the probabilty is
> very small.

Data corruption means the content of the packet was mangled on the wire,
or was it a more serious issue, like a tx queue hang ?



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