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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:01:17 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808251401.18209.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080819150555.GA15995@puku.stupidest.org>

On Wednesday 20 August 2008 01:05:55 Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 07:10:44PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > We need both.  CSUM2 is the new virtio-level feature.
>
> Perhaps that's what I'm misisng.  How is this different to CSUM?

Because current guests which say they can handle CSUM can't *really* handle 
it.  That's the entire point.  We need a new one, so that existing guests 
don't ack it (because they don't understand it), and new guests can ack it 
later.

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-25  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-15 19:47 [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness Anthony Liguori
2008-08-18 10:56 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-18 11:01   ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-18 11:06     ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-18 11:34       ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-18 11:40         ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-18 11:44           ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-18 12:15             ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-19  0:45             ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-19  3:17               ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-08-19  4:41                 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-19  5:13                   ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-08-19  5:17                     ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-19  5:28                       ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-08-19  9:10                         ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-19 15:05                           ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-08-25  4:01                             ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-08-19  9:08                       ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-19  9:56                         ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-19 11:36                           ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-19 23:35                         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-19  9:12               ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-19 13:42                 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-19 13:50                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-19 13:54                     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-19 14:00                       ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-24  8:39 ` Herbert Xu

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