netdev - Re: [net-next 13/15] ixgbe: Handle extended IPv6 headers in tx path

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Message-ID: <BDE75CB1-7061-4841-A2B7-B4C39A3F03C1@intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Dec 2015 01:06:34 +0000
From:	"Rustad, Mark D" <mark.d.rustad@...el.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
CC:	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"nhorman@...hat.com" <nhorman@...hat.com>,
	"sassmann@...hat.com" <sassmann@...hat.com>,
	"jogreene@...hat.com" <jogreene@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 13/15] ixgbe: Handle extended IPv6 headers in tx path

Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com> wrote:

> This doesn't look right.  How come this doesn't match the implementation you did for the ixgbevf driver?  If I am not mistaken this approach had issues where it could spin forever didn't it?

Yes, this is the original version of the patch instead of the V4 of the patch which you would recognize and should have seen on the intel-wired-lan list. Jeff and I discussed this a little while ago and I sent him a link to the V4 of the patch in patchwork.

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Mark Rustad, Networking Division, Intel Corporation

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