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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/34]bnx2x: Setting the GSO_TYPE with LRO
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:00:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231956021.3010.35.camel@achroite> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231954948.11301.158.camel@lb-tlvb-eliezer>

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 19:42 +0200, Eilon Greenstein wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 08:57 -0800, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 18:42 +0200, Eilon Greenstein wrote:
> > > When TPA (HW GRO) is used, the GSO_TYPE should be set
> > [...]
> > 
> > No it shouldn't.  That is for the output path only.
> > 
> 
> Right - but it was an issue with forwarding

You can't use LRO together with forwarding/bridging unless you replicate
what Herbert Xu has done to allow reconstruction of the original frames.
Setting gso_type is a hack which you may or may not get away with,
depending on the output device's capabilities.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-14 16:42 [PATCH 05/34]bnx2x: Setting the GSO_TYPE with LRO Eilon Greenstein
2009-01-14 16:57 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-14 17:42   ` Eilon Greenstein
2009-01-14 18:00     ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2009-01-14 19:29       ` Eilon Greenstein
2009-01-14 20:18         ` Herbert Xu
2009-01-14 20:27           ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-14 21:12             ` David Miller

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