From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932297Ab2C1Cwf (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:52:35 -0400 Received: from rtits2.realtek.com ([60.250.210.242]:53512 "EHLO rtits2.realtek.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932131Ab2C1Cwc (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:52:32 -0400 X-SpamFilter-By: BOX Solutions SpamTrap 5.19 with qID q2S2qP8c009362 From: hayeswang To: "'Francois Romieu'" CC: , References: <1332834834-5185-1-git-send-email-hayeswang@realtek.com> <1332834834-5185-5-git-send-email-hayeswang@realtek.com> <20120327225453.GD22177@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 5/5] r8169: support RTL8411 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:52:24 +0800 Message-ID: <97E69EF42D4742BA8789F8EAAA3A4AF8@realtek.com.tw> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Ac0MbP6Rln4lNndhTwq2o8Yq+cPsvAAH12LQ In-Reply-To: <20120327225453.GD22177@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Francois Romieu [mailto:romieu@fr.zoreil.com] [...] > > @@ -250,6 +252,9 @@ static const struct { > > > JUMBO_9K, false), > > [RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_37] = > > _R("RTL8402", RTL_TD_1, FIRMWARE_8402_1, > > + JUMBO_1K, true), > > + [RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_38] = > > + _R("RTL8411", RTL_TD_1, FIRMWARE_8411_1, > > JUMBO_1K, true) > > Realtek's product page documents this chipset as a gigabit > one. It seems > strange to configure it as a jumbo packet unable one. > It is my mistake. I would fix it. [...] > "The RTL8411 supports Receive Side Scaling (RSS) to hash incoming TCP > connections and load-balance received data processing across > multiple CPUs. > RSS improves the number of transactions per second and number > of connections > per second, for increased network throughput. Header Data > Split (HDS) support > enables faster processing of TCP/IP networking protocols for > improved network > performance. > > Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) is a hardware virtualization > technology for the > efficient transfer of network traffic to a virtualized host > OS. VMQ uses > hardware packets filtering to deliver packet data from an > external virtual > machine network directly to virtual machines, which reduces > the overhead of > routing packets and copying them from the management > operating system to the > virtual machine. > > Note: RTL8411 Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) is only functional > in computers > running Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V server role > installed." > > Will Realtek consider helping make those being available on Linux ? > I don't have the documents about these. I need more information from the other engineers, and I have to discuss with my leader. Maybe I could research the possibility when I have more time. Best Regards, Hayes