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authorRaimonds Cicans <ray@apollo.lv>2009-11-13 05:52:19 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-11-13 22:56:56 -0500
commit8812304cf1110ae16b0778680f6022216cf4716a (patch)
tree1bb5b0e0830ed193a6bcd494a244aca49a80029e /drivers
parent55369c0a6441e95062cfaeef6eefcfb357a31e8c (diff)
r8169: Fix receive buffer length when MTU is between 1515 and 1536
In r8169 driver MTU is used to calculate receive buffer size. Receive buffer size is used to configure hardware incoming packet filter. For jumbo frames: Receive buffer size = Max frame size = MTU + 14 (ethernet header) + 4 (vlan header) + 4 (ethernet checksum) = MTU + 22 Bug: driver for all MTU up to 1536 use receive buffer size 1536 As you can see from formula, this mean all IP packets > 1536 - 22 (for vlan tagged, 1536 - 18 for not tagged) are dropped by hardware filter. Example: host_good> ifconfig eth0 mtu 1536 host_r8169> ifconfig eth0 mtu 1536 host_good> ping host_r8169 Ok host_good> ping -s 1500 host_r8169 Fail host_good> ifconfig eth0 mtu 7000 host_r8169> ifconfig eth0 mtu 7000 host_good> ping -s 1500 host_r8169 Ok Bonus: got rid of magic number 8 Signed-off-by: Raimonds Cicans <ray@apollo.lv> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/r8169.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c
index fa4935678488..b9221bdc7184 100644
--- a/drivers/net/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c
@@ -3243,9 +3243,9 @@ static void __devexit rtl8169_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pdev)
3243static void rtl8169_set_rxbufsize(struct rtl8169_private *tp, 3243static void rtl8169_set_rxbufsize(struct rtl8169_private *tp,
3244 struct net_device *dev) 3244 struct net_device *dev)
3245{ 3245{
3246 unsigned int mtu = dev->mtu; 3246 unsigned int max_frame = dev->mtu + VLAN_ETH_HLEN + ETH_FCS_LEN;
3247 3247
3248 tp->rx_buf_sz = (mtu > RX_BUF_SIZE) ? mtu + ETH_HLEN + 8 : RX_BUF_SIZE; 3248 tp->rx_buf_sz = (max_frame > RX_BUF_SIZE) ? max_frame : RX_BUF_SIZE;
3249} 3249}
3250 3250
3251static int rtl8169_open(struct net_device *dev) 3251static int rtl8169_open(struct net_device *dev)