netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] mvneta: software TSO implementation

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Message-ID: <20140411190827.GC19199@arch.cereza>
Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:08:27 -0300
From:	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com,
	gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com, simon.guinot@...uanux.org,
	tawfik@...vell.com, alior@...vell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mvneta: software TSO implementation

On Apr 11, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 06:02:30PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 20:51 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> > > This is not really driver specific code.
> > > 
> > > Please create an appropriate abstraction, and put this code in a
> > > common place so that any driver can do this.
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > 
> > Note a prior implementation existed in
> > 
> > drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c
> > 
> > Note sure how it can be properly factorized, but worth trying .
> 
> I also tried to find how to do this for mv643xx_eth a few years ago
> 
[..]

Can you share *any* code about this attempt on mv643xx_eth? It would be
helpful to see other TSO cases, to have more examples in order to come
up with a proper abstraction.

-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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