netdev - Re: [PATCH] Make possible speeds known to ethtool

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Message-ID: <4966EE86.3030704@pobox.com>
Date:	Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:28:22 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, rick.jones2@...com, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make possible speeds known to ethtool

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 12:30:21AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Actually it's just the opposite -- _the_ most common complaint from  
>> users and driver developers of the ethtool interface, over the years,  
>> has been that there is no way to collect all the modifications and then  
>> commit it to hardware all in one go.
> 
> Yes that's a problem for flags that require the drivers to reset
> itself.
> 
>> Each new ethtool command added often winds up pausing and resetting the  
>> hardware completely, and ETHTOOL_SGRO is no exception.
> 
> But as I explained before, GRO (like GSO) is purely a software
> setting, it has nothing to do with the driver at all.  In other

Not quite true...  it touches the driver's rx-csum hook.


> If anything by going into the driver's set_flags function as you
> suggested may cause a spurious reset that wouldn't have happened
> otherwise.
> 
> So for software flags like GSO/GRO at least, I don't see any
> benefit in going to a multi-bit interface.  On the flip side,
> I see potential complications with a multi-bit interfaces that
> simply don't exist with a single-bit interface.

Well, whichever.  Overall, if [GS]GRO remains I am happy to take patches 
supporting it in the userspace utility...

	Jeff


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