Re: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.

David Miller
2006-10-11T03:50:47Z

From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:49:09 -0700

> David> non-sendfile() paths will generate big packets just fine,
> David> as long as the application is providing that much data.
>
> OK, cool. Will the big packets be non-linear skbs?

If you had SG enabled (and thus checksumming offload too) then yes
you'll get a non-linear SKB. Otherwise, without SG, you'll get a
fully linear SKB.