linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: mv643xx

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:32:56 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>,
	Soeren Moch <smoch@....de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>,
	Dale Farnsworth <dale@...nsworth.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mv643xx_eth: Add GRO support

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 05:27:03PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> I don't have a strong opinion on whether Soeren's or your proposal should
> be submitted. But I insist on having one of them in, as GRO significantly
> improves the common use case, is enabled by default, and not as
> constrained as LRO.

I agree, use yours first, but we should keep an eye on this. Since you have
everything to run a test, please try to see if you can get netperf to run
over IPv6, I'm sure the NIC doesn't handle it.

Willy

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/