From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
jallen@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/2 v4] ibmvnic: map L2/L3/L4 header descriptors to firmware
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:51:57 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160405.195157.2030686647042617056.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459549235-22039-1-git-send-email-tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 17:20:34 -0500
> Allow the VNIC driver to provide descriptors containing
> L2/L3/L4 headers to firmware. This feature is needed
> for greater hardware compatibility and enablement of checksum
> and TCP offloading features.
>
> A new function is included for the hypervisor call,
> H_SEND_SUBCRQ_INDIRECT, allowing a DMA-mapped array of SCRQ
> descriptor elements to be sent to the VNIC server.
>
> These additions will help fully enable checksum offloading as
> well as other features as they are included later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-05 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-01 22:20 [net-next PATCH 1/2 v4] ibmvnic: map L2/L3/L4 header descriptors to firmware Thomas Falcon
2016-04-01 22:20 ` [net-next PATCH 2/2 v4] ibmvnic: enable RX checksum offload Thomas Falcon
2016-04-05 23:52 ` David Miller
2016-04-05 23:51 ` David Miller [this message]
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