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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: gallatin@myri.com
Cc: ossthema@de.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tklein@de.ibm.com,
	raisch@de.ibm.com, jb.billaud@gmail.com, hering2@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lro: IP fragment checking
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:07:22 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081201.160722.114600830.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49345CCA.1030209@myri.com>

From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:53:14 -0500

> What hardware does an explicit check for fragmentation?

If the packet is fragmented, the chip shouldn't even be
looking at the ports to make LRO deferral decisions let
alone pass it down as a LRO'able frame.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-02  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-01  8:58 [PATCH] lro: IP fragment checking Jan-Bernd Themann
2008-12-01  9:41 ` David Miller
2008-12-01 17:50 ` Andrew Gallatin
2008-12-01 21:18   ` David Miller
2008-12-01 21:53     ` Andrew Gallatin
2008-12-01 22:09       ` Ben Hutchings
2008-12-02  0:02         ` Andrew Gallatin
2008-12-02  0:18           ` Ben Hutchings
2008-12-02 14:42             ` Andrew Gallatin
2008-12-02 15:18               ` Ben Hutchings
2008-12-02 15:36                 ` Andrew Gallatin
2008-12-02  0:07       ` David Miller [this message]
2008-12-02  0:19         ` Andrew Gallatin

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