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From: "Manfred Spraul" <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: "Daniel Stodden" <stodden@in.tum.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NETIF_F_(SG|FRAGLIST|HIGHDMA) docs anywhere?
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:14:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000701c1905a$08153af0$010411ac@local> (raw)

> my major problem is test cases and getting the picture behind these
> structures.

Check skb_copy_and_csum_dev, used by the 8139too and via-rhine
network drivers: that's a software-only implementation of the NETIF_F_
flags.

Note that the kernel never uses scatter-gather without hardware
checksumming: concurrent sendfile()+write() would create packets
with invalid checksums.

--
    Manfred



             reply	other threads:[~2001-12-29 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-29 11:14 Manfred Spraul [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-29  7:16 NETIF_F_(SG|FRAGLIST|HIGHDMA) docs anywhere? Daniel Stodden
2001-12-29 19:16 ` kuznet

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