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authorTushar Dave <[email protected]>2012-09-14 03:43:43 +0000
committerJeff Kirsher <[email protected]>2012-10-19 11:23:29 +0000
commitea5ceeabf5621ed36d24e6741b45cfd1e1fce11b (patch)
treecfdf89e57309ca380d96d180cdd58c63aff1d955
parentixgbe: Add mailbox API version negotiation support to ixgbe PF (diff)
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igb: Correcting and improving small packet check and padding
Current implementation mess up the tail pointer. This patch sets skb->tail correctly. Also, the small packet check and padding is optimized by using unlikely and calling skb_pad directly. Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <[email protected]> Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index e1ceb37ef12e..c611cffa788f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -4467,10 +4467,11 @@ static netdev_tx_t igb_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb,
* The minimum packet size with TCTL.PSP set is 17 so pad the skb
* in order to meet this minimum size requirement.
*/
- if (skb->len < 17) {
- if (skb_padto(skb, 17))
+ if (unlikely(skb->len < 17)) {
+ if (skb_pad(skb, 17 - skb->len))
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
skb->len = 17;
+ skb_set_tail_pointer(skb, 17);
}
return igb_xmit_frame_ring(skb, igb_tx_queue_mapping(adapter, skb));