Re: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.

Roland Dreier
2006-10-11T03:33:51Z

Michael> My guess was, an extra pass over data is likely to be
Michael> expensive - dirtying the cache if nothing else. But I do
Michael> plan to measure that, and see.

I don't get it -- where's the extra pass? If you can't compute the
checksum on the NIC then you have to compute sometime it on the CPU
before passing the data to the NIC.

- R.