[PATCH 3/9] ixgb: revert an unwanted fix regarding tso/descriptors
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From: Kok, Auke <hidden>
Date: 2006-05-26 16:46:56
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
There seemed to be another bug introduced as well as a performance hit with the addtion of the sentinel descriptor workaround. Removal of this workaround appears to prevent the hang. We'll take a risk and remove it, as we had never seen the originally reported bug under linux. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <redacted> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <redacted> Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <redacted> --- drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c | 15 +-------------- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
index 26c777f..5561ab6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c@@ -1295,7 +1295,6 @@ ixgb_tx_map(struct ixgb_adapter *adapter struct ixgb_buffer *buffer_info; int len = skb->len; unsigned int offset = 0, size, count = 0, i; - unsigned int mss = skb_shinfo(skb)->tso_size; unsigned int nr_frags = skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; unsigned int f;
@@ -1307,11 +1306,6 @@ ixgb_tx_map(struct ixgb_adapter *adapter while(len) { buffer_info = &tx_ring->buffer_info[i]; size = min(len, IXGB_MAX_JUMBO_FRAME_SIZE); - /* Workaround for premature desc write-backs - * in TSO mode. Append 4-byte sentinel desc */ - if(unlikely(mss && !nr_frags && size == len && size > 8)) - size -= 4; - buffer_info->length = size; buffer_info->dma = pci_map_single(adapter->pdev,
@@ -1337,12 +1331,6 @@ ixgb_tx_map(struct ixgb_adapter *adapter while(len) { buffer_info = &tx_ring->buffer_info[i]; size = min(len, IXGB_MAX_JUMBO_FRAME_SIZE); - /* Workaround for premature desc write-backs - * in TSO mode. Append 4-byte sentinel desc */ - if(unlikely(mss && (f == (nr_frags-1)) && (size == len) - && (size > 8))) - size -= 4; - buffer_info->length = size; buffer_info->dma = pci_map_page(adapter->pdev,
@@ -1421,8 +1409,7 @@ ixgb_tx_queue(struct ixgb_adapter *adapt #define TXD_USE_COUNT(S) (((S) >> IXGB_MAX_TXD_PWR) + \ (((S) & (IXGB_MAX_DATA_PER_TXD - 1)) ? 1 : 0)) #define DESC_NEEDED TXD_USE_COUNT(IXGB_MAX_DATA_PER_TXD) + \ - MAX_SKB_FRAGS * TXD_USE_COUNT(PAGE_SIZE) + 1 \ - /* one more for TSO workaround */ + 1 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS * TXD_USE_COUNT(PAGE_SIZE) + 1 static int ixgb_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev) --
Auke Kok [off-list ref]