From: "Dale Farnsworth" <dale@farnsworth.org>
To: Manish Lachwani <mlachwani@penguin.mvista>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mv643xx_eth: fix hw checksum generation on transmit
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:03:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041214050316.GA5022@xyzzy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41BE1744.4060502@penguin.mvista>
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:27:16PM +0000, Manish Lachwani wrote:
> Hi Dale,
>
> Just want to let you know that the checksum offload code worked well in
> 2.4. I have the numbers with me. On a Jaguar ATX board (Discovery II
> controller), TCP throughput measured using netperf was 920 Mb/s. As far
> as 2.6 goes, I dont have any idea if the checksum offload worked
>
> Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> >This patch fixes the code that enables hardware checksum generation.
> >The previous code has so many problems that it appears to never have
> >worked.
I haven't tried it on 2.4, so can't comment there. Something like
my patch seems needed for 2.6 though. So, I'll revise my comment
to say that I don't see how the previous code could have worked on
current 2.6
-Dale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-14 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-13 22:09 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth support for platform device interface + more Dale Farnsworth
2004-12-13 22:12 ` [PATCH 1/6] mv643xx_eth: remove redundant/useless code Dale Farnsworth
2004-12-13 22:14 ` [PATCH 2/6] mv643xx_eth: replace fixed-count spin delays Dale Farnsworth
2004-12-14 23:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-15 18:03 ` Dale Farnsworth
2004-12-13 22:15 ` [PATCH 3/6] mv643xx_eth: fix hw checksum generation on transmit Dale Farnsworth
[not found] ` <41BE1744.4060502@penguin.mvista>
2004-12-14 5:03 ` Dale Farnsworth [this message]
2004-12-14 23:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-15 18:12 ` Dale Farnsworth
2004-12-13 22:18 ` [PATCH 4/6] mv643xx_eth: Convert from pci_map_* to dma_map_* interface Dale Farnsworth
2004-12-13 22:19 ` [PATCH 5/6] mv643xx_eth: Add support for platform device interface Dale Farnsworth
2004-12-14 23:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-15 18:32 ` Dale Farnsworth
2004-12-13 22:20 ` [PATCH 6/6] mv643xx_eth: add configurable parameters via " Dale Farnsworth
2004-12-14 22:51 ` [PATCH 7/6] mv643xx_eth: Remove use of MV_SET_REG_BITS macro Dale Farnsworth
2004-12-14 22:56 ` Russell King
2004-12-15 19:02 ` [PATCH] mv643xx_eth support for platform device interface + more Dale Farnsworth
2004-12-15 19:18 ` [PATCH 8/6] mv643xx_eth: address style issues raised by Christoph Hellwig Dale Farnsworth
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