Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph...

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / drivers / net / r8169.c

diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c
index 7193afc..9674005 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c
@@ -186,7 +186,12 @@ static DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(rtl8169_pci_tbl) = {
 
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, rtl8169_pci_tbl);
 
-static int rx_copybreak = 200;
+/*
+ * we set our copybreak very high so that we don't have
+ * to allocate 16k frames all the time (see note in
+ * rtl8169_open()
+ */
+static int rx_copybreak = 16383;
 static int use_dac;
 static struct {
        u32 msg_enable;
@@ -3217,9 +3222,13 @@ static void __devexit rtl8169_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 }
 
 static void rtl8169_set_rxbufsize(struct rtl8169_private *tp,
-                                 struct net_device *dev)
+                                 unsigned int mtu)
 {
-       unsigned int max_frame = dev->mtu + VLAN_ETH_HLEN + ETH_FCS_LEN;
+       unsigned int max_frame = mtu + VLAN_ETH_HLEN + ETH_FCS_LEN;
+
+       if (max_frame != 16383)
+               printk(KERN_WARNING "WARNING! Changing of MTU on this NIC"
+                       "May lead to frame reception errors!\n");
 
        tp->rx_buf_sz = (max_frame > RX_BUF_SIZE) ? max_frame : RX_BUF_SIZE;
 }
@@ -3231,7 +3240,17 @@ static int rtl8169_open(struct net_device *dev)
        int retval = -ENOMEM;
 
 
-       rtl8169_set_rxbufsize(tp, dev);
+       /*
+        * Note that we use a magic value here, its wierd I know
+        * its done because, some subset of rtl8169 hardware suffers from
+        * a problem in which frames received that are longer than
+        * the size set in RxMaxSize register return garbage sizes
+        * when received.  To avoid this we need to turn off filtering,
+        * which is done by setting a value of 16383 in the RxMaxSize register
+        * and allocating 16k frames to handle the largest possible rx value
+        * thats what the magic math below does.
+        */
+       rtl8169_set_rxbufsize(tp, 16383 - VLAN_ETH_HLEN - ETH_FCS_LEN);
 
        /*
         * Rx and Tx desscriptors needs 256 bytes alignment.
@@ -3884,7 +3903,7 @@ static int rtl8169_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
 
        rtl8169_down(dev);
 
-       rtl8169_set_rxbufsize(tp, dev);
+       rtl8169_set_rxbufsize(tp, dev->mtu);
 
        ret = rtl8169_init_ring(dev);
        if (ret < 0)