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

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Date:	Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:53:06 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
CC:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, divy@...lsio.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] cxgb3 - Add SW LRO support

Steve Wise wrote:
> 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

That's argument to further avoiding compounding the problem, by 
reinventing the wheel for each driver.

	Jeff



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