From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758514AbXGOJNK (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:13:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752680AbXGOJM6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:12:58 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:60410 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752300AbXGOJM5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:12:57 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:12:53 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Miller 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 Message-ID: <20070715091253.GA15790@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , David Miller , 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 References: <200707111621.24852.ossthema@de.ibm.com> <20070714.235748.02297780.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070714.235748.02297780.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:57:48PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > only request is to make this thing able to handle ipv6 as > well even if no current chips could facilitate that yet. 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.