From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] venet: add scatter-gather/GSO support Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:32:25 -0700 Message-ID: <20090803113225.4cd414ec@nehalam> References: <20090803171030.17268.26962.stgit@dev.haskins.net> <20090803171807.17268.49836.stgit@dev.haskins.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alacrityvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Gregory Haskins Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:46257 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753395AbZHCSca (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:32:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090803171807.17268.49836.stgit@dev.haskins.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:18:07 -0400 Gregory Haskins wrote: > SG/GSO significantly enhance the performance of network traffic under > certain circumstances. We implement this feature as a separate patch > to avoid intially complicating the baseline venet driver. This will > presumably make the review process slightly easier, since we can > focus on the basic interface first. > > Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins Never mind, previous comment about adding TSO. But it still would be good to have ethtool interface for this. --