From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brice Goglin Subject: generic LRO in the net core stack? Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:51:25 +0100 Message-ID: <4575B19D.3010205@myri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from h-66-166-126-70.lsanca54.covad.net ([66.166.126.70]:59454 "EHLO myri.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S968527AbWLERvp (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:51:45 -0500 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Herbert Xu Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi, About 2 month ago, I sent a patchset to implement software LRO in myri10ge. People replied that it might be time to implement something generic in the net core stack instead since it was the second driver to do so. We completely agree with this. But, I haven't heard back from this idea since then, so I was wondering whether somebody is actually working on it. If not, I'd like to get our LRO code merged anyway since our driver have been missing this important feature for a very long time already. We would drop it later when something generic will be available. FYI, our myri10ge LRO patch is not intrusive in the driver. It would be very easy to revert since it only adds lines but does not modify or remove any single one (see http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg23133.html). thanks, Brice