From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] net: Generalize udp based tunnel offload Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:43:35 +0100 Message-ID: <1448387015.235472.448970977.10694A74@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1448312579-159544-1-git-send-email-anjali.singhai@intel.com> <1448312579-159544-2-git-send-email-anjali.singhai@intel.com> <20151123171103.00007699@unknown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Singhai, Anjali" , Jesse Gross , Linux Kernel Network Developers , "Patil, Kiran" To: Tom Herbert , Jesse Brandeburg Return-path: Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:45062 "EHLO out2-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753828AbbKXRng (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:43:36 -0500 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66842203C3 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:43:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Nov 24, 2015, at 18:32, Tom Herbert wrote: > As you said this in only feedback and nobody is forcing anyone to do > anything. But encouraging HW vendors to provide generic mechanisms so > that your users can use whatever protocol they want is the exact > _opposite_ of punishing users, this is very much a pro-user direction. Some users will suffer worse performance in case we don't correctly set ip_summed for a specific protocol before we do the copy operations from user space into skbs but if they are always done in the driver. Bye, Hannes