From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, jeff@garzik.org,
auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add ETHTOOL_[GS]FLAGS sub-ioctls
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:15:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46BCF1AF.3080000@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070810.154601.98709831.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:40:02 -0700
>
>
>>For GSO on output, is there a generic fallback for any driver that
>>does not specifically implement GSO?
>
>
> Absolutely, in fact that's mainly what it's there for.
>
> I don't think there is any issue. The knob is there via
> ethtool for people who really want to disable it.
Just to be paranoid (who me?) we are then at a point where what happened
a couple months ago with forwarding between 10G and IPoIB won't happen
again - where things failed because a 10G NIC had LRO enabled by default?
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-10 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-10 20:24 [PATCH 1/4] Add ETHTOOL_[GS]FLAGS sub-ioctls Jeff Garzik
2007-08-10 20:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] ethtool: introduce get_sset_count Jeff Garzik
2007-08-10 20:26 ` [PATCH 3/4] Add ETHTOOL_[GS]PFLAGS sub-ioctls Jeff Garzik
2007-08-10 20:45 ` Driver writer hints (was [PATCH 3/4] Add ETHTOOL_[GS]PFLAGS sub-ioctls) Jeff Garzik
2007-08-10 21:01 ` Rick Jones
2007-08-10 21:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-10 20:26 ` [PATCH 4/4] ethtool: internal simplification Jeff Garzik
2007-08-10 20:56 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add ETHTOOL_[GS]FLAGS sub-ioctls Jeff Garzik
2007-08-15 23:05 ` David Miller
2007-08-10 21:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-10 21:11 ` Ben Greear
2007-08-10 22:10 ` David Miller
2007-08-10 22:40 ` Ben Greear
2007-08-10 22:46 ` David Miller
2007-08-10 23:15 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2007-08-14 20:38 ` Kok, Auke
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