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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 5/7] ixgbe: DDP last buffer size work around
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:34:32 -0800 (PST)
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From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:18:53 -0800

> From: Amir Hanania <amir.hanania@intel.com>
> 
> We found a hardware erratum on 82599 hardware that can lead to buffer
> overwriting if the last buffer in FCoE DDP is exactly PAGE_SIZE.
> If this is the case, we will make sure that there is no HW access to
> this buffer.
> 
> Please see the 82599 Specification Update for more information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amir Hanania <amir.hanania@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Ross Brattain <ross.b.brattain@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

PAGE_SIZE is variable, I can't see how the hardware BUGs on all
possible architecutre values of PAGE_SIZE.