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Commit 32344a39 authored by Jesse Brandeburg's avatar Jesse Brandeburg Committed by David S. Miller
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ixbge: fix bug when using large pages and jumbo frames


it was pointed out on the list that ixgbe was failing when using 64kB pages
and large 16kB MTU.

since with a 64kB PAGE_SIZE MAX_SKB_FRAGS = 3, the way the driver was
configuring page usage was assuming 2kB is half a page, and was only
ever dmaing that much data to a half page.

(16kB - header size) / 2048 = 7 or 8 pages, which would far exceed 3

adjust the driver to account for these large pages, the hardware can
support DMA to up to 16kB for each descriptor.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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