Thread (13 messages) flat view 13 messages, 4 authors, 2012-05-17

Re: [net-next 2/4] e1000: remove workaround for Errata 23 from jumbo alloc

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2012-05-17 14:40:37

On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 04:27 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

According to the comment, errata 23 says that the memory we allocate
can't cross a 64KiB boundary. In case of jumbo frames we allocate
complete pages which can never cross the 64KiB boundary because
PAGE_SIZE should be a multiple of 64KiB so we stop either before the
Should be a factor, not multiple.

[...]
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -4391,30 +4391,6 @@ e1000_alloc_jumbo_rx_buffers(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
 			break;
 		}
 
-		/* Fix for errata 23, can't cross 64kB boundary */
-		if (!e1000_check_64k_bound(adapter, skb->data, bufsz)) {
-			struct sk_buff *oldskb = skb;
-			e_err(rx_err, "skb align check failed: %u bytes at "
-			      "%p\n", bufsz, skb->data);
-			/* Try again, without freeing the previous */
-			skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(netdev, bufsz);
-			/* Failed allocation, critical failure */
-			if (!skb) {
-				dev_kfree_skb(oldskb);
-				adapter->alloc_rx_buff_failed++;
-				break;
-			}
-
-			if (!e1000_check_64k_bound(adapter, skb->data, bufsz)) {
-				/* give up */
-				dev_kfree_skb(skb);
-				dev_kfree_skb(oldskb);
-				break; /* while (cleaned_count--) */
-			}
-
-			/* Use new allocation */
-			dev_kfree_skb(oldskb);
-		}
[...]

I don't believe PAGE_SIZE is >64K on any architecture, but perhaps you
should replace the run-time check with:

		BUILD_BUG_ON(PAGE_SIZE > 0x10000);

in case that changes in future.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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