On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 23:15 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> The error vanishes as soon as I put a gso size limit of MAX_TX_BUF_LEN
> in the driver. MAX_TX_BUF_LEN seems to be arbitrary set to 0x2000. I
> can even raise it to 0x3000 and don't see any tcp retransmits. Do you
> have an advice on how to size this value (e.g. should we switch to the
> windows values)?

This looks like an overflow error...

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
index 7e0a822..7965f89 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
@@ -1569,18 +1569,17 @@ static u16 atl1e_cal_tdp_req(const struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
        int i = 0;
        u16 tpd_req = 1;
-       u16 fg_size = 0;
-       u16 proto_hdr_len = 0;
 
        for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++) {
-               fg_size = skb_frag_size(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]);
+               u32 fg_size = skb_frag_size(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]);
+
                tpd_req += ((fg_size + MAX_TX_BUF_LEN - 1) >> MAX_TX_BUF_SHIFT);
        }
 
        if (skb_is_gso(skb)) {
                if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP) ||
                   (skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type == SKB_GSO_TCPV6)) {
-                       proto_hdr_len = skb_transport_offset(skb) +
+                       u32 proto_hdr_len = skb_transport_offset(skb) +
                                        tcp_hdrlen(skb);
                        if (proto_hdr_len < skb_headlen(skb)) {
                                tpd_req += ((skb_headlen(skb) - proto_hdr_len +


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