This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vmxnet3: Fix inconsistent LRO state after initialization
to the 2.6.38-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
vmxnet3-fix-inconsistent-lro-state-after-initialization.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.38 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From ebde6f8acba92abfc203585198a54f47e83e2cd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Jarosch <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 06:28:15 +0000
Subject: vmxnet3: Fix inconsistent LRO state after initialization
From: Thomas Jarosch <[email protected]>
commit ebde6f8acba92abfc203585198a54f47e83e2cd0 upstream.
During initialization of vmxnet3, the state of LRO
gets out of sync with netdev->features.
This leads to very poor TCP performance in a IP forwarding
setup and is hitting many VMware users.
Simplified call sequence:
1. vmxnet3_declare_features() initializes "adapter->lro" to true.
2. The kernel automatically disables LRO if IP forwarding is enabled,
so vmxnet3_set_flags() gets called. This also updates netdev->features.
3. Now vmxnet3_setup_driver_shared() is called. "adapter->lro" is still
set to true and LRO gets enabled again, even though
netdev->features shows it's disabled.
Fix it by updating "adapter->lro", too.
The private vmxnet3 adapter flags are scheduled for removal
in net-next, see commit a0d2730c9571aeba793cb5d3009094ee1d8fda35
"net: vmxnet3: convert to hw_features".
Patch applies to 2.6.37 / 2.6.38 and 2.6.39-rc6.
Please CC: comments.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Jarosch <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethtool.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethtool.c
@@ -311,6 +311,9 @@ vmxnet3_set_flags(struct net_device *net
/* toggle the LRO feature*/
netdev->features ^= NETIF_F_LRO;
+ /* Update private LRO flag */
+ adapter->lro = lro_requested;
+
/* update harware LRO capability accordingly */
if (lro_requested)
adapter->shared->devRead.misc.uptFeatures |=
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-2.6.38/vmxnet3-fix-inconsistent-lro-state-after-initialization.patch
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