From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: jdmason@us.ibm.com, shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ethernet Bridging: Enable Hardware Checksumming
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:00:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050518.220031.75189050.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <428BD7E7.5080207@us.ibm.com>
From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 17:03:51 -0700
> I think this is a good thing to have, gives us performance
> gain (equivalent to using/not using checksum offload) and
> has very little impact on the bridging layer, and is
> independent of the virtualization stuff..
I agree but keep in mind that when bridging over non-checksumming
devices it will be more expensive. Especially for TCP.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-19 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-18 23:53 [PATCH] Ethernet Bridging: Enable Hardware Checksumming Jon Mason
2005-05-19 0:03 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-19 5:00 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-05-19 15:13 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-19 20:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-19 2:41 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-19 15:10 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-19 18:51 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-19 20:43 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-19 20:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-19 21:48 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-19 23:23 ` Jon Mason
2005-05-19 23:36 ` David S. Miller
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