linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/3] lro: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic

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Message-Id: <20070715.024015.126137834.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:40:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hch@...radead.org
Cc:	ossthema@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, raisch@...ibm.com,
	themann@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, meder@...ibm.com, tklein@...ibm.com,
	stefan.roscher@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] lro: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:12:53 +0100

> I'm not sure that's a good idea.  If current chips can't handle ipv6
> lro there is no way to actually test it and the code will surely bitrot.

Christoph, you can do LRO pretty much completely in software.

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