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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:33:33 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: jesse@...ira.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Move vlan acceleration into networking core. From: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:56:00 -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 eleven 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. First 11 patches applied, thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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