netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: mv643xx_eth: Make TSO disabled by default

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Date:	Sat, 1 Nov 2014 18:00:37 +0100
From:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik@...vell.com>,
	Lior Amsalem <alior@...vell.com>,
	Nadav Haklai <nadavh@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: mv643xx_eth: Make TSO disabled by default

Dear Ezequiel Garcia,

On Sat,  1 Nov 2014 12:30:20 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Data corruption has been observed to be produced by TSO. For instance,
> accessing files on a NFS-server with TSO enabled results in different data
> transferred each time.
> 
> This has been observed only on Kirkwood platforms, i.e. with the mv643xx_eth
> driver. Same tests on platforms using the mvneta ethernet driver have
> passed without errors.
> 
> Make TSO disabled by default for now, until we can found a proper fix
> for the regression.
> 
> Fixes: 3ae8f4e0b98 ('net: mv643xx_eth: Implement software TSO')
> Reported-by: Slawomir Gajzner <slawomir.gajzner@...il.com>
> Reported-by: Julien D'Ascenzio <jdascenzio@...oo.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>

Shouldn't you have a:

   Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v3.16+

here ?

Thanks,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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