ixgbevf: remove redundant workaround

This patch removes a workaround related to header split, which is redundant
because the driver does not support splitting packet headers on Rx.

Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
index b16b694951b842743c30e88f5218ce879589161f..9685354e6b9dd822f41c4652adbb861e3658579f 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
@@ -497,15 +497,6 @@ static int ixgbevf_clean_rx_irq(struct ixgbevf_q_vector *q_vector,
                total_rx_bytes += skb->len;
                total_rx_packets++;
 
-               /*
-                * Work around issue of some types of VM to VM loop back
-                * packets not getting split correctly
-                */
-               if (staterr & IXGBE_RXD_STAT_LB) {
-                       u32 header_fixup_len = skb_headlen(skb);
-                       if (header_fixup_len < 14)
-                               skb_push(skb, header_fixup_len);
-               }
                skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, rx_ring->netdev);
 
                /* Workaround hardware that can't do proper VEPA multicast