From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Move vlan acceleration into networking core. Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20101019.025039.112595275.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1287000177-7126-1-git-send-email-jesse@nicira.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: jesse@nicira.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47807 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752498Ab0JSJuQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:50:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1287000177-7126-1-git-send-email-jesse@nicira.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jesse Gross Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:02:50 -0700 > Hardware vlan acceleration behaves fairly differently from other > types of offloading, which limits its usefulness. This patch series > aims to bring it more in line with other common forms of > acceleration, such as checksum offloading and TSO. In doing this it > eliminates common driver bugs, increases flexibility, and improves > performance, while reducing the number of lines of code. > > The first four patches can be applied immediately, while the last > three need to wait until all drivers that support vlan acceleration > are updated. If people agree that this patch set makes sense I will > go ahead and switch over the dozen or so drivers that would need to > change. These changes look great (and everyone I've asked tends to agree) so please submit the updated series with feedback integrated and I'll add at least the first 4 patches to net-next-2.6 Thanks!