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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Malli <mchilakala@gmail.com>
Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	jeff@garzik.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: add LRO support
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:16:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080611101628.GQ11300@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7991c5480806101247h586993a1o31e136484e30bc8f@mail.gmail.com>

Malli wrote:
> Forwarding my reply. It got rejected from netdev list, as it was sent in HTML
> 
> Thanks for your feedback Ben. I'll update the patch with ethtool get
> and set flags. But in packet split mode we still wouldn't want to
> limit this with MAX_SKB_FRAGS because we don't actually add the frags
> to the previous packet.  They just chain them together using the
> frag_list and next pointers in the skb. Let me know if it still
> doesn't address your concern in max aggregation.

Yes, I understood that.  I wasn't sure whether MAX_SKB_FRAGS was also meant
to be a limit on the frag_list.  The comment above its definition implies
quite strongly that it isn't, so there's no problem.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-11 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-09 22:57 [PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: fix typo Jeff Kirsher
2008-06-09 22:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: add LRO support Jeff Kirsher
2008-06-09 23:26   ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-10 19:33     ` Malli
2008-06-10 19:47       ` Malli
2008-06-11 10:16         ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2008-06-10 22:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: fix typo Jeff Garzik

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