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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jdmason@us.ibm.com, shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ethernet Bridging: Enable Hardware Checksumming
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 08:13:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <428CAD24.904@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050518.220031.75189050.davem@davemloft.net>

David S. Miller wrote:

>>I think this is a good thing to have, gives us performance
>>gain (equivalent to using/not using checksum offload) and
>>has very little impact on the bridging layer, and is
>>independent of the virtualization stuff..
> 
> 
> I agree but keep in mind that when bridging over non-checksumming
> devices it will be more expensive.  Especially for TCP.

Yep - as I just said to Herbert - perhaps worthwhile then
conditional upon support of checksum offload & SG?

thanks,
Nivedita

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-19 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-18 23:53 [PATCH] Ethernet Bridging: Enable Hardware Checksumming Jon Mason
2005-05-19  0:03 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-19  5:00   ` David S. Miller
2005-05-19 15:13     ` Nivedita Singhvi [this message]
2005-05-19 20:34       ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-19  2:41 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-19 15:10   ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-19 18:51     ` David S. Miller
2005-05-19 20:43       ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-19 20:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-19 21:48   ` David S. Miller
2005-05-19 23:23     ` Jon Mason
2005-05-19 23:36       ` David S. Miller

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