netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] tg3: Allow for receive of full-size 8021AD frames

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Message-ID: <1411169862.26859.62.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:37:42 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Prashant Sreedharan <prashant@...adcom.com>
Cc:	Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] tg3: Allow for receive of full-size 8021AD frames

On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 16:14 -0700, Prashant Sreedharan wrote:

> The NIC will not receive frames of size > mtu + ETH_HLEN + VLAN_HLEN it
> will update the oversize_frame count and drop it. The check is to make
> sure the additional 4 bytes is due to a valid vlan header.

I see, thanks for the explanation ;)


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