Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add ETHTOOL_[GS]FLAGS sub-ioctls

Rick Jones
2007-08-10T23:26:33Z

David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:40:02 -0700
>
>
>>For GSO on output, is there a generic fallback for any driver that
>>does not specifically implement GSO?
>
>
> Absolutely, in fact that's mainly what it's there for.
>
> I don't think there is any issue. The knob is there via
> ethtool for people who really want to disable it.

Just to be paranoid (who me?) we are then at a point where what happened
a couple months ago with forwarding between 10G and IPoIB won't happen
again - where things failed because a 10G NIC had LRO enabled by default?

rick jones