From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/5] [NET]: Merge TSO/UFO fields in sk_buff
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:46:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150937184.4069.4.camel@rh4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060621232741.GA21559@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 09:27 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hi Michael:
>
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:48:15PM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> >
> > We have some hardware that supports TSO and ECN. Is something like the
> > patch below what you had in mind to support NETIF_F_TSO_ECN? Or are you
> > thinking about something more generic that works with or without
> > hardware support?
>
> Yeah I was thinking of something more generic because packets with CWR
> set should be rare.
>
OK, if time permits, I'll cook up some patches to support generic TSO
ECN with or without hardware support. Without hardware ECN, it will use
GSO to split up the packet with CWR. Can we assume that all hardware
will handle ECE properly?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-22 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-20 9:09 [0/5] GSO: Generic Segmentation Offload Herbert Xu
2006-06-20 9:10 ` [1/5] [NET]: Merge TSO/UFO fields in sk_buff Herbert Xu
2006-06-21 21:48 ` Michael Chan
2006-06-21 23:27 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-22 0:46 ` Michael Chan [this message]
2006-06-22 1:09 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-22 1:14 ` David Miller
2006-06-20 9:28 ` [2/5] [NET]: Add generic segmentation offload Herbert Xu
2006-06-20 17:54 ` Michael Chan
2006-06-20 23:46 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-20 9:29 ` [3/5] [NET]: Add software TSOv4 Herbert Xu
2006-06-20 9:30 ` [4/5] [NET]: Added GSO toggle Herbert Xu
2006-06-20 9:30 ` [5/5] [IPSEC]: Handle GSO packets Herbert Xu
2006-06-20 9:32 ` [0/5] GSO: Generic Segmentation Offload Herbert Xu
2006-06-20 10:40 ` David Miller
2006-06-20 16:18 ` Rick Jones
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2006-06-22 8:12 Herbert Xu
2006-06-22 8:12 ` [1/5] [NET]: Merge TSO/UFO fields in sk_buff Herbert Xu
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