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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [0/5] GSO: Generic Segmentation Offload
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:40:11 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060620.034011.104035301.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060620093219.GF31854@gondor.apana.org.au>

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:32:19 +1000

> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 07:09:19PM +1000, herbert wrote:
> >
> > I've attached some numbers to demonstrate the savings brought on by
> > doing this.  The best scenario is obviously the case where the underlying
> > NIC supports SG.  This means that we simply have to manipulate the SG
> > entries and place them into individual skb's before passing them to the
> > driver.  The attached file lo-res shows this.
> 
> Obviously I forgot to attach them :)

:-)

The changes look good on first scan, I'll look more deeply and
meanwhile we'll let the patches ferment for a few days so others
can comment too :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-20 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ 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
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 [this message]
2006-06-20 16:18   ` Rick Jones
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-22  8:12 Herbert Xu
2006-06-22  8:15 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-22 10:08 ` David Miller
2006-06-22 14:28 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-06-24  5:36   ` Herbert Xu

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