netdev - Re: [PATCH 7/7] cxgb3 - Add SW LRO support

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 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:	Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:17:15 -0600
From:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	divy@...lsio.com, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] cxgb3 - Add SW LRO support

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 05:13 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:44:23PM -0800, divy@...lsio.com wrote:
> > From: Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
> > 
> > Add all-in-sw lro support.
> 
> Doing this in a LLDD doesn't sound like a good idea.  Have you
> tried doing this in the core networking code instead?

It looks like both Netxen and Neterion drivers already have this.  So I
think for now the LLDD implements LRO.  The stack supports it by virtue
of allowing fragmented skbs that are bigger than the MTU.

Other drivers implementing LRO:

drivers/net/s2io.c
drivers/net/netxen/

Steve.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html