From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: qeth tcp segmentation offload
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:09:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050328230929.639e51f3.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4248FD8D.6030208@pobox.com>
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Please help me understand: why add all this TSO code (zerocopy), if you
> are adding memcpy() under the hood?
>
> Was this reviewed on netdev? or by any network developer?
>
> Overall this patch adds a whole lot of code that must be VERY intimate
> with the net stack, a huge maintenance burden that is likely to be rife
> with out-of-date code and bugs over time.
>
There was some dicussion on linux-net last Thursday.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-29 7:27 UTC|newest]
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2005-03-29 7:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-29 7:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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