From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: "Michał Mirosław" <mirqus@gmail.com>
Cc: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
srk@ti.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: Adding Support for SG,GSO,GRO
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:20:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291998028.11673.6.camel@bwh-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=cVufUAHn6LRs_vG-cW2cY87SdP9MOE7i5Ru09@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 17:01 +0100, Michał Mirosław wrote:
[...]
> The question is do we really want good checksum for bogus data?
[...]
It's not bogus data. It's a snapshot of the file contents at some
arbitrary point in time.
Now please stop wasting your own time and that of the networking
maintainers, and remember to check for checksum offload next time you
need to select a network controller.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-10 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-09 10:33 Adding Support for SG,GSO,GRO Govindarajan, Sriramakrishnan
2010-12-09 10:50 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-09 14:49 ` Govindarajan, Sriramakrishnan
2010-12-09 15:02 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-12-09 18:29 ` David Miller
2010-12-09 18:47 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-12-09 18:58 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-12-10 8:27 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-12-09 19:38 ` David Miller
2010-12-10 14:18 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-12-10 14:31 ` David Lamparter
2010-12-10 16:01 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-12-10 16:20 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-12-10 18:05 ` David Miller
2010-12-10 16:23 ` David Lamparter
2010-12-10 16:26 ` Eric Dumazet
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