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From: "Lothar Waßmann" <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk,
	Frank.Li@freescale.com, fabio.estevam@freescale.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: net: fec: fix regression on i.MX28 introduced by rx_copybreak support
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 06:32:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141031063210.69004315@ipc1.ka-ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141030.121710.1524000348187962764.davem@davemloft.net>

Hi,

David Miller wrote:
> From: Lothar Waßmann <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 07:51:04 +0100
> 
> >> Also, I don't thnk your DIV_ROUND_UP() eliminate for the loop
> >> in swap_buffer() is valid.  The whole point is that the current
> >> code handles buffers which have a length which is not a multiple
> >> of 4 properly, after your change it will no longer do so.
> >>
> > Do you really think so?
> 
> Yes, because you're rounding down so you'll miss the final
> partial word (if any).
>
Nope. DIV_ROUND_UP() would give '1' as upper bound for lengths from 1 to
4, '2' for lengths from 5 to 8 and so on.

The loop with increment 4 and i < len does exactly the same.
Try it for yourself, if you don't believe it.


Lothar Waßmann
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-31  5:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-28 11:01 [PATCHv2 0/6] " Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 11:01 ` [PATCHv2 1/6] net: fec: indentation cleanup; no functional change Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 11:01 ` [PATCHv2 2/6] net: fec: declare bufdesc_ex flag as bool Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 11:01 ` [PATCHv2 3/6] net: fec: improve access to quirk flags by copying them into fec_enet_private struct Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 11:01 ` [PATCHv2 4/6] net: fec: use swab32s() instead of cpu_to_be32() Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 11:01 ` [PATCHv2 5/6] net: fec: simplify loop counter handling in swap_buffer() Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 11:01 ` [PATCHv2 6/6] net: fec: fix regression on i.MX28 introduced by rx_copybreak support Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 11:12   ` David Laight
2014-10-28 12:36     ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 13:01       ` David Laight
2014-10-28 13:30         ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 11:14   ` David Laight
2014-10-28 12:10     ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 13:22 ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 13:22   ` [PATCHv3 1/9] net: fec: indentation cleanup Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 13:22   ` [PATCHv3 2/9] net: fec: consistently use lower case chars as hex digits Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 13:22   ` [PATCHv3 3/9] net: fec: properly parenthesize macro args Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 13:22   ` [PATCHv3 4/9] net: fec: declare bufdesc_ex flag as bool Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 13:23   ` [PATCHv3 5/9] net: fec: improve access to quirk flags by copying them into fec_enet_private struct Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 13:23   ` [PATCHv3 6/9] net: fec: use swab32s() instead of cpu_to_be32() Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 13:23   ` [PATCHv3 7/9] net: fec: simplify loop counter handling in swap_buffer() Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 13:23   ` [PATCHv3 8/9] net: fec: remove unused return value from swap_buffer() Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-28 13:23   ` [PATCHv3 9/9] net: fec: fix regression on i.MX28 introduced by rx_copybreak support Lothar Waßmann
2014-11-03 22:58     ` Stefan Wahren
2014-10-29 19:34   ` David Miller
2014-10-30  6:51     ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-10-30 16:17       ` David Miller
2014-10-31  5:32         ` Lothar Waßmann [this message]
2014-11-04 10:29           ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-11-04 16:28             ` David Miller
2014-11-05  5:21               ` Lothar Waßmann
2014-11-05 20:52                 ` David Miller

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