From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759799AbXGOJk2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:40:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757191AbXGOJkO (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:40:14 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:40021 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756722AbXGOJkM (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:40:12 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:40:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070715.024015.126137834.davem@davemloft.net> To: hch@infradead.org Cc: ossthema@de.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, raisch@de.ibm.com, themann@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, meder@de.ibm.com, tklein@de.ibm.com, stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] lro: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20070715091253.GA15790@infradead.org> References: <200707111621.24852.ossthema@de.ibm.com> <20070714.235748.02297780.davem@davemloft.net> <20070715091253.GA15790@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:12:53 +0100 > I'm not sure that's a good idea. If current chips can't handle ipv6 > lro there is no way to actually test it and the code will surely bitrot. Christoph, you can do LRO pretty much completely in software.