netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers: net: xgene: Fix MSS programming

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Date:   Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:21:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     isubramanian@....com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        patches@....com, toanle@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers: net: xgene: Fix MSS programming

From: Iyappan Subramanian <isubramanian@....com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:47:33 -0700

> Current driver programs static value of MSS in hardware register for TSO
> offload engine to segment the TCP payload regardless the MSS value
> provided by network stack.
> 
> This patch fixes this by programming hardware registers with the
> stack provided MSS value.
> 
> Since the hardware has the limitation of having only 4 MSS registers,
> this patch uses reference count of mss values being used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Iyappan Subramanian <isubramanian@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Toan Le <toanle@....com>

Applied.