- Removed the code to bounds check the mss value. The hardware does bounds checking and
will not allow an oversized mss to lockup the transmit path.
Signed-off-by: Sreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com>
---
diff -urpN patch_4/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c patch_5/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
--- patch_4/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c 2009-06-21 23:53:43.000000000 -0700
+++ patch_5/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c 2009-06-22 00:52:43.000000000 -0700
@@ -817,7 +817,6 @@ vxge_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ne
u64 dma_pointer;
struct vxge_tx_priv *txdl_priv = NULL;
struct __vxge_hw_fifo *fifo_hw;
- u32 max_mss = 0x0;
int offload_type;
unsigned long flags = 0;
int vpath_no = 0;
@@ -969,10 +968,6 @@ vxge_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ne
int mss = vxge_tcp_mss(skb);
if (mss) {
- max_mss = dev->mtu + ETH_HLEN -
- VXGE_HW_TCPIP_HEADER_MAX_SIZE;
- if (mss > max_mss)
- mss = max_mss;
vxge_debug_tx(VXGE_TRACE,
"%s: %s:%d mss = %d",
dev->name, __func__, __LINE__, mss);
diff -urpN patch_4/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h patch_5/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h
--- patch_4/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h 2009-06-21 23:53:43.000000000 -0700
+++ patch_5/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h 2009-06-22 00:53:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@
VXGE_HW_HEADER_VLAN_SIZE + \
VXGE_HW_HEADER_SNAP_SIZE)
-#define VXGE_HW_TCPIP_HEADER_MAX_SIZE (64 + 64)
-
/* 32bit alignments */
#define VXGE_HW_HEADER_ETHERNET_II_802_3_ALIGN 2
#define VXGE_HW_HEADER_802_2_SNAP_ALIGN 2
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