linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] venet: add scatter-gather/GSO support

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Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:32:25 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] venet: add scatter-gather/GSO support

On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:18:07 -0400
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com> wrote:

> SG/GSO significantly enhance the performance of network traffic under
> certain circumstances.  We implement this feature as a separate patch
> to avoid intially complicating the baseline venet driver.  This will
> presumably make the review process slightly easier, since we can
> focus on the basic interface first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>

Never mind, previous comment about adding TSO.  But it still would
be good to have ethtool interface for this.

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