Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:39:27 -0400 | From | Tony Battersby <> | Subject | Re: TG3 network data corruption regression 2.6.24/2.6.23.4 |
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Matt Carlson wrote: > Hi Tony. Sorry for the radio silence. > > Michael and I have discussed this problem a bit. Another possibility is > that the chip may be having difficulty with non-dword aligned TX buffers. > Since we already know the RX side has the same problem, it isn't so > far-fetched to think that perhaps it can affect the TX side too. Can > you give the following patch a try and see if the corruption still > happens? > >
Thanks, your patch fixes the problem (tested on 2.6.24.4). However, I had to change "(skb->mac_header & 3)" in your patch to "((long) skb->mac_header & 3)" since mac_header is a pointer rather than an int on 32-bit systems.
Tested-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
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