From: Or Gerlitz <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:49:43 +0200
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:31 PM, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Or Gerlitz <[email protected]> > >>> Hi Dave, for correct operation / future bisection, you should 1st >>> apply Roland's patch which reduces the hard header len advertized by >>> ipoib to be only the size of the ipoib header without that 20 bytes >>> headroom, else the gro memcmp will be issued on the ipoib header and >>> then 20 bytes of the ip header, kind of back to square one... > >> I did. > > Yep, I missed your earlier response to Roland's patch. So a question > here, how would you recommend to get that out... since the fix for the > problem includes two patches to core networking and one patch to > ipoib, we can't just ship a patch to ipoib which people can apply > build against their kernels. You've placed this work in net-next and > not net, so I assume we should wait for 3.4-rc1 and then push to > -stable? any other method to use here that you can recommend? thanks, I don't think this is an appropriate bug fix at all. Apparently this problem has existed since day one and the world has kept on spinning meanwhile. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
