From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Move vlan acceleration into networking core. Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:33:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20101021.013333.189715307.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1287618974-4714-1-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]:33451 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751307Ab0JUIdK (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:33:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1287618974-4714-1-git-send-email-jesse@nicira.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jesse Gross Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:56:00 -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 eleven 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. First 11 patches applied, thanks!