On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 20:07 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > 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 > boundary or start after it but never cross it. Furthermore the check > seems bogus because it looks at skb->data which is not seen by the HW > at all because we only pass the DMA address of the page we allocated. > So > I *think* the workaround is not required here. > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 24 > ------------------------ > 1 file changed, 24 deletions(-)
Thanks Sebastian, I will add the patch to my queue of patches.
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