Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:35:54 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: TG3 network data corruption regression 2.6.24/2.6.23.4 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:32:00 -0800
> On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 17:41 -0500, Tony Battersby wrote: > > I am experiencing network data corruption with a 3Com 3C996B-T NIC > > (Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5701; driver tg3.ko). I have identified the > > following patch as the trigger: > > Assuming this problem is unique to the 5701, I'm not sure how it is > exposed by Herbert's patch. One thing unique on the 5701 is that it > double-copies all RX packets so that the data starts at offset 2, but > that's quite unrelated to the patch below.
One consequence of Herbert's change is that the chip will see a different datastream. The initial skb->data linear area will be smaller, and the transition to the fragmented area of pages will be quicker.
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