netdev - Re: [PATCH] dsa: tag_rtl4_a: Bump min packet size

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Message-ID: <95f324af-88de-4692-966f-588287305e09@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:23:13 -0700
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
 Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dsa: tag_rtl4_a: Bump min packet size

You would want your subject to be:

net: dsa: tag_rtl4_a: Bump min packet size

On 10/27/23 13:21, Linus Walleij wrote:
> It was reported that the "LuCI" web UI was not working properly
> with a device using the RTL8366RB switch. Disabling the egress
> port tagging code made the switch work again, but this is not
> a good solution as we want to be able to direct traffic to a
> certain port.
> 
> It turns out that sometimes, but not always, small packets are
> dropped by the switch for no reason.

And we are positive that the Ethernet MAC is also properly padding 
frames before having them ingress the switch?

> 
> If we pad the ethernet frames to a minimum of ETH_FRAME_LEN + FCS
> (1518 bytes) everything starts working fine.

That is quite unprecedented, either the switch is very bogus or there is 
something else we do not fully understand...
-- 
Florian