From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ravinandan Arakali" Subject: RE: [3/5] [NET]: Add software TSOv4 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:28:12 -0700 Message-ID: <004201c69725$14123700$4110100a@pc.s2io.com> References: <20060622.143206.111203586.davem@davemloft.net> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , Return-path: Received: from barracuda.s2io.com ([72.1.205.138]:48548 "EHLO barracuda.mail.s2io.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932748AbWFXAtO (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:49:14 -0400 To: "'David Miller'" , In-Reply-To: <20060622.143206.111203586.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 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 says: > > > [NET]: Add software TSOv4 > > > > This patch adds the GSO implementation for IPv4 TCP. > > > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu > > 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html