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Message-ID: <20090803113355.734e69b6@nehalam>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:33:55 -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:
> + struct {
> + int sg:1;
> + int tso:1;
> + int ufo:1;
> + int tso6:1;
> + int ecn:1;
> + } flags;
Why do you have to shadow flags that are already available in net_device?
It is bad design to replicate state in a device driver. The problem
with replicated state is that it has to be updated in both places.
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