netdev - Re: [PATCH] tg3: Work around HW/FW limitations with vlan encapsulated frames

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Message-Id: <20140922.142050.1675487445764875212.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:20:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vyasevich@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, vyasevic@...hat.com, prashant@...adcom.com,
	mchan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tg3: Work around HW/FW limitations with vlan
 encapsulated frames

From: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:31:17 -0400

> TG3 appears to have an issue performing TSO and checksum offloading
> correclty when the frame has been vlan encapsulated (non-accelrated).
> In these cases, tcp checksum is not correctly updated.
> 
> This patch attempts to work around this issue.  After the patch,
> 802.1ad vlans start working correctly over tg3 devices.
> 
> CC: Prashant Sreedharan <prashant@...adcom.com>
> CC: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.
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