[CentOS] vmxnet3 patch for CentOS6 kernel?

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Morten Stevens
<mstevens at imt-systems.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:17:02 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>
>> The issue is a bug in vmxnet3 driver, which is not able to disable
>> LRO mode when the kernel is telling the driver to do so.
>> The patch for it applies on 2.6.32 kernels as well as 2.6.38/39 where
>> it got applied to baseline.
>
> What is with vmware tools? VMware tools provides the latest vmxnet3
> driver.
>
> The current version is: VMwareTools-8.3.7-433358.tar.gz

Yes, but ...

I just checked the version I got. It is
VMwareTools-8.4.6-385536.tar.gz and contains vmxnet3.c (dated May 26).
However, the patch OP referenced (dated May 16, 2011) is not in there.
Looks like it is too new.

Akemi