Re: [PATCH 1/1] TX throttling bug-fixing patch of AX88179_178A

From: Grant Grundler
Date: Tue Jul 23 2013 - 22:32:16 EST


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:46 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
>> A quick scan shows that smsc75xx, smsc95xx, and ax88179_178a all have
>> this problem.
>>
>> Instead of the patch starting this thread, I'd like to see one that
>> hits all three drivers and removes all SG and TSO features bits from
>> both the ->features _and_ ->hw_features settings.
>
> Since you are asking to remove TSO, do you also want skb_linearize()
> calls in ax88179_178a.c and smsc75xx.c removed as well?

Nevermind...Eric already removed skb_linearize calls in his patch.

cheers,
grant

>
> Not part of the original patch - but based on this thread, Eric seems
> to think calling skb_linearize isn't necessary or helpful either.
>
> cheers,
> grant
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