From: "Ravinandan Arakali" <ravinandan.arakali@neterion.com>
To: "'David Miller'" <davem@davemloft.net>, <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [3/5] [NET]: Add software TSOv4
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:28:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <004201c69725$14123700$4110100a@pc.s2io.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060622.143206.111203586.davem@davemloft.net>
Neterion's Xframe adapter supports TSO over IPv6.
Ravi
-----Original Message-----
From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of David Miller
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:32 PM
To: yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au; netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [3/5] [NET]: Add software TSOv4
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:04:03 +0900 (JST)
> In article <20060622081400.GC22671@gondor.apana.org.au> (at Thu, 22 Jun
2006 18:14:00 +1000), Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> says:
>
> > [NET]: Add software TSOv4
> >
> > This patch adds the GSO implementation for IPv4 TCP.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
>
> I'd appreciate if you code up IPv6 TCP as well. :-)
To my understanding doing IPV6 TCP TSO is a non-trivial task, even in
software.
The header editing is a lot more complicated because things like
routing and other extension headers can sit between IPV6 and TCP
header.
It is probably why IPV6 TSO hardware does not exist yet :)
Do not take this to mean I think it should not be implemented, I think
it should.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-24 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-22 8:12 [0/5] GSO: Generic Segmentation Offload Herbert Xu
2006-06-22 8:12 ` [1/5] [NET]: Merge TSO/UFO fields in sk_buff Herbert Xu
2006-06-22 8:13 ` [2/5] [NET]: Add generic segmentation offload Herbert Xu
2006-06-22 8:14 ` [3/5] [NET]: Add software TSOv4 Herbert Xu
2006-06-22 8:23 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-22 15:04 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-06-22 21:32 ` David Miller
2006-06-24 0:28 ` Ravinandan Arakali [this message]
2006-06-24 1:32 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-06-26 18:33 ` Ravinandan Arakali
2006-06-23 19:33 ` Michael Chan
2006-06-23 21:26 ` Michael Chan
2006-06-23 23:38 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-23 23:53 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-24 3:08 ` Michael Chan
2006-06-26 6:55 ` David Miller
2006-06-22 8:14 ` [4/5] [NET]: Added GSO toggle Herbert Xu
2006-06-22 8:14 ` [5/5] [IPSEC]: Handle GSO packets Herbert Xu
2006-06-22 8:15 ` [0/5] GSO: Generic Segmentation Offload Herbert Xu
2006-06-22 10:08 ` David Miller
2006-06-22 14:28 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-06-24 5:36 ` Herbert Xu
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2006-06-20 9:09 Herbert Xu
2006-06-20 9:29 ` [3/5] [NET]: Add software TSOv4 Herbert Xu
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