From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: therbert@google.com
Cc: ben@decadent.org.uk, Spike_White@dell.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Translation table available between 'ethtool -k' and 'ethtool -K' ? For Linux?
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:05:07 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141120.230507.1288958595564653550.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+mtBx9SJ5mhLBMk8E0gGceweMyzJ2icBfjGJc0rjOTDVQZi1Q@mail.gmail.com>
From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:07:44 -0800
> Ben I'm not sure I see this. If we turn off HW offloads and rely on
> the software offloads where is the increased risk? This may result in
> performance degradation for sure, but I really hope at this point that
> the software offload mechanisms in the stack are as least as robust as
> any HW mechanism.
It means you're testing a configuration different from %99 of users
(who are not changing the defaults). You are by definition testing
code paths with less overall global testing coverage.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-21 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-11-20 23:32 ` Translation table available between 'ethtool -k' and 'ethtool -K' ? For Linux? Ben Hutchings
2014-11-20 23:35 ` David Miller
2014-11-21 1:07 ` Tom Herbert
2014-11-21 4:05 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-11-21 4:36 ` Tom Herbert
[not found] ` <BABF60987D48764FA4071AC73CB9C56162EBFBD4AA@AUSX7MCPC101.AMER.DELL.COM>
2014-11-22 5:03 ` David Miller
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