From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764243AbXGRN2h (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:28:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761332AbXGRN2R (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:28:17 -0400 Received: from mtagate6.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.139]:31654 "EHLO mtagate6.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759934AbXGRN2O (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:28:14 -0400 From: Jan-Bernd Themann To: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] lro: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic (IPv6) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:00:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: hch@infradead.org, 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> <20070715091253.GA15790@infradead.org> <20070715.024015.126137834.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20070715.024015.126137834.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707181501.00163.ossthema@de.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I suggest we keep the interface open for IPv6 support by adding an additional parameter but first just get IPv4 support only into the kernel. IPv6 support can then incrementially be added. Would that be ok? On Sunday 15 July 2007 11:40, David Miller wrote: > 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. > >