netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] offloading: Support multiple vlan tags in GSO.

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Message-ID: <1288643630.2231.30.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:33:50 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] offloading: Support multiple vlan tags in GSO.

On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 15:14 -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> We assume that hardware TSO can't support multiple levels of vlan tags
> but we allow it to be done.  Therefore, enable GSO to parse these tags
> so we can fallback to software.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
[...]

I can't see how TSO would be enabled on a second-level VLAN device;
presumably you're thinking about GSO being enabled there?

Ben.

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