Re: [PATCH net] tg3: Expand 4g_overflow_test workaround to skb fragments of any size.

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On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 16:24 -0800, Nithin Nayak Sujir wrote:
> The current driver assumes that an skb fragment can only be upto jumbo
> size. Presumably this was a fast-path optimization. This assumption is
> no longer true as fragments can be upto 32k.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
> index f3dd93b..8ab21d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
> @@ -7622,7 +7622,7 @@ static inline int tg3_4g_overflow_test(dma_addr_t mapping, int len)
>  {
>  	u32 base = (u32) mapping & 0xffffffff;
>  
> -	return (base > 0xffffdcc0) && (base + len + 8 < base);
> +	return (base + len + 8 < base);
>  }

And it is actually faster ;)

What is 8 value exactly ?



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