netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Move vlan acceleration into networking core.

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Date:	Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:50:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse@...ira.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Move vlan acceleration into networking core.

From: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:02:50 -0700

> Hardware vlan acceleration behaves fairly differently from other
> types of offloading, which limits its usefulness.  This patch series
> aims to bring it more in line with other common forms of
> acceleration, such as checksum offloading and TSO.  In doing this it
> eliminates common driver bugs, increases flexibility, and improves
> performance, while reducing the number of lines of code.
> 
> The first four patches can be applied immediately, while the last
> three need to wait until all drivers that support vlan acceleration
> are updated.  If people agree that this patch set makes sense I will
> go ahead and switch over the dozen or so drivers that would need to
> change.

These changes look great (and everyone I've asked tends to agree)
so please submit the updated series with feedback integrated
and I'll add at least the first 4 patches to net-next-2.6

Thanks!
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