[PATCH net-next V2 3/9] net/mlx4_en: Pad ethernet packets smaller than 17 bytes
From: Amir Vadai <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-02 08:25:29
Subsystem:
mellanox ethernet driver (mlx4_en), mellanox mlx4 core vpi driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Tariq Toukan, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Eugenia Emantayev <redacted> Hardware can't accept packets smaller than 17 bytes. Therefore need to pad with zeros. Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <redacted> Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev <redacted> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c
index 8dc7637..781ebca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c@@ -585,7 +585,13 @@ static void build_inline_wqe(struct mlx4_en_tx_desc *tx_desc, struct sk_buff *sk int spc = MLX4_INLINE_ALIGN - CTRL_SIZE - sizeof *inl; if (skb->len <= spc) { - inl->byte_count = cpu_to_be32(1 << 31 | skb->len); + if (likely(skb->len >= MIN_PKT_LEN)) { + inl->byte_count = cpu_to_be32(1 << 31 | skb->len); + } else { + inl->byte_count = cpu_to_be32(1 << 31 | MIN_PKT_LEN); + memset(((void *)(inl + 1)) + skb->len, 0, + MIN_PKT_LEN - skb->len); + } skb_copy_from_linear_data(skb, inl + 1, skb_headlen(skb)); if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags) memcpy(((void *)(inl + 1)) + skb_headlen(skb), fragptr,
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