From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@computer.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Default offload settings in Ethernet drivers
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:10:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <494165BB.6030103@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081211105459.3e615be8@s6510>
> Go get a kill-a-watt meter and real hardware and measure.
> I don't think there will be any difference. Linux (mainline) doesn't
> do TOE. It does do segmentation offload, and any driver that can
> do segmentation offload enables it by default.
Further, it would seem reasonable to expect if a NIC has a feature the
driver does not enable by default, the implication is that feature is
not yet ready for regular use.
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-11 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-11 18:41 Default offload settings in Ethernet drivers Jan Ceuleers
2008-12-11 18:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-12-11 19:10 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2008-12-11 19:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-12-11 19:30 ` Jan Ceuleers
2008-12-11 19:52 ` Ben Hutchings
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