From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Deepak Subject: Re: GSO / TSO offload dependency Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:28:43 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1267385446.2282.119.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44557 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750698Ab3FFEFF (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 00:05:05 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkRRe-0003Fs-AD for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:05:03 +0200 Received: from 67-207-112-62.static.wiline.com ([67.207.112.62]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:05:02 +0200 Received: from deepakcse11 by 67-207-112-62.static.wiline.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:05:02 +0200 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > If hardware supports TSO, and If TSO and GSO are both enabled, ... > > what will happen to segmentation assembly by means of GSO ... > > GSO will not do any segmentatoin assembly for TCP alone and will do > > for other protocols ?? bit confused here? Please clarify. > > Your understanding is correct. > > Ben. > I havn't understood this one, In case of TCP Protocol (Hardware support TSO and TSO & GSO are enabled), will it go through the GSO segmentation assembly code ??