netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/1] qlge: Fix receive packets drop.

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Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:22:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	manish.chopra@...gic.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Dept-GELinuxNICDev@...gic.com,
	harish.patil@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] qlge: Fix receive packets drop.

From: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@...gic.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 07:13:45 -0400

> When running small packets [length < 256 bytes] traffic, packets were
> being dropped due to invalid data in those packets which were
> delivered by the driver upto the stack. Using pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu
> ensures copying latest and updated data into skb from the receive buffer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@...gic.com>
> Signed-off-by: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@...gic.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.