netdev - Re: [PATCH] atl1: disable TSO by default

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Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:17:16 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	jacliburn@...lsouth.net, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, link@...gy.org, ian@...fray.co.uk,
	csnook@...hat.com, jie.yang@...eros.com, m@...oston.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atl1: disable TSO by default

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:58:45PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> > The atl1 driver was merged in the spring of 2007, so I'm not sure I
> > consider it new (but your kernel development time horizon is undoubtedly
> > *way* longer than mine, so you may indeed consider it new). It was
> > basically a vendor driver that we modified to conform to kernel coding
> > standards. It started life, we believe, as pretty much a clone of the
> > e1000 driver circa 2005, so that's likely where it's use of LLTX
> > came from.
> 
> You'll have to forgive us, as we often have a knee jerk reaction
> to seeing LLTX anywhere :-)

Heh, it's like seeing a fly in your soup :)

However, this does seem to be proliferating to some extent although
I picked on the wrong driver.  The one I saw that was new is actually
drivers/net/atl1e which seems to have copied the same code across.

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