netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] net: systemport: Pad packet before inserting TSB

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Date:   Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:04:39 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] net: systemport: Pad packet before inserting TSB

Hello!

On 1/4/2017 3:34 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:

> Inserting the TSB means adding an extra 8 bytes in fron the of packet

    In front?

> that is going to be used as metadata information by the TDMA engine, but
> stripped off, so it does not really help with the packet padding.
>
> For some odd packet sizes that fall below the 60 bytes payload (e.g: ARP)
> we can end-up padding them after the TSB insertion, thus making them 64
> bytes, but with the TDMA stripping off the first 8 bytes, they could
> still be smaller than 64 bytes which is required to ingress the switch.
>
> Fix this by swapping the padding and TSB insertion, guaranteeing that
> the packets have the right sizes.
>
> Fixes: 80105befdb4b ("net: systemport: add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT Ethernet MAC driver")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
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MBR, Sergei