From: Jarod Wilson <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 09:36:37 -0500
> This is based on the work done by Przemek Rudy in bug 70761 at > bugzilla.kernel.org, but with some work done to disentagle and clarify > things a bit. > > Similar to Przemek's work and other drivers, we're adding a padding of 16 > here, but we're also disentangling mtu size calculations from max buffer > size calculations a bit, and adding ETH_HLEN to the value written into > ALX_MTU. Hopefully, with a bit more consistency and clarity, things behave > better here. Sadly, I can only test in my alx-driven E2200, which worked > just fine before this patch. > > In comment #58 of bug 70761, Eugene A. Shatokhin reports that this patch > does help considerably for a ROSA Linux user of his with an AR8162 network > adapter when patched into a 4.1.x-based kernel, with several days of > normal operation where wired network previously wasn't usable without > setting MTU to 9000 as a work-around. > > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70761 > CC: "Eugene A. Shatokhin" <[email protected]> > CC: Przemek Rudy <[email protected]> > CC: Jay Cliburn <[email protected]> > CC: Chris Snook <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <[email protected]> > --- > v2: remove superfluous parens around raw_mtu, pointed out by davem Looks great, applied, thanks Jarod. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
