From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC, VLAN]: Propagate selected feature bits to VLAN devices
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:23:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4833092A.3070800@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D5C1322C3E673F459512FB59E0DDC329051AC81F@orsmsx414.amr.corp.intel.com>
Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote:
>> I guess it doesn't matter so much to me either way..so long
>> as it is narrowed one way or another, and preferably narrowed
>> enough to allow plenty of new flags down the road.
>
> In addition to TSO, we also want TCP checksum offload, so we'll need at
> least one more flag. So whatever is done to shrink the GSO bits, we'll
> need room for two new flags.
You're right of course, seems I wasn't thinking :)
>
> The patch looks good after a visual inspection. I'll send test results
> later today.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-20 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-20 14:37 [RFC, VLAN]: Propagate selected feature bits to VLAN devices Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 14:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 14:48 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-20 14:51 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 15:46 ` Ben Greear
2008-05-20 16:20 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-20 16:27 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 16:28 ` Ben Greear
2008-05-20 17:22 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-20 17:23 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-05-20 18:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-20 18:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 19:58 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-20 23:59 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 21:55 ` David Miller
2008-05-20 23:58 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-21 15:49 ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-21 16:28 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-21 23:39 ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-22 17:47 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-22 18:03 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-22 18:18 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-22 18:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-22 18:57 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
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