netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: Add ndo_gso

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20141015.121116.1805243151246641620.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:11:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	therbert@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: Add ndo_gso_check

From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:19:06 -0700

> Add ndo_gso_check which a device can define to indicate whether is
> is capable of doing GSO on a packet. This funciton would be called from
> the stack to determine whether software GSO is needed to be done. A
> driver should populate this function if it advertises GSO types for
> which there are combinations that it wouldn't be able to handle. For
> instance a device that performs UDP tunneling might only implement
> support for transparent Ethernet bridging type of inner packets
> or might have limitations on lengths of inner headers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Tom.
--
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