netdev - Re: [oss-drivers] [PATCH net-next 3/9] nfp: support LSO2 capability

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Date:   Tue, 16 May 2017 08:56:07 +0200
From:   Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com,
        Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@...ronome.com>
Subject: Re: [oss-drivers] [PATCH net-next 3/9] nfp: support LSO2 capability

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 05:55:17PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> From: Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@...ronome.com>
> 
> Firmware advertising the LSO2 capability exploits driver provided L3 and L4
> offsets in order to avoid parsing packet headers in the TX path. The vlan
> field in struct nfp_net_tx_desc is repurposed, making TXVLAN a mutually
> exclusive configuration to LSO2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@...ronome.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>