Re: [PATCH 0/12] virtio_net perf patches

Herbert Xu
2008-08-12T23:39:21Z

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:12:28PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>
> Are you basically just saying that guests with a "broken" dhclient
> should manually disable rx checksum offload with ethtool? And that the
> host should react by disabling tx offload on the tap interfacE?

No I'm saying that everybody should default to no checksum offload.
Those that have working kernels + user-space can then enable it on
boot-up.

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