netdev - Re: [patch 4/5] [PATCH] qeth: rework TSO functions

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Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:36:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	frank.blaschka@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] [PATCH] qeth: rework TSO functions

From: frank.blaschka@...ibm.com
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:11:44 +0100

> From: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@...ibm.com>
> 
> The maximum TSO size OSA can handle is 15 * PAGE_SIZE. This
> patch reduces gso_max_size to this value and adds some sanity
> checks and statistics to the TSO implementation.
> Since only layer 3 is able to do TSO move all TSO related functions
> to the qeth_l3 module.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@...ibm.com>

Please don't add sysctl knobs for getting and setting TSO enabling,
that's what ethtool is for.
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