On Tuesday 19 August 2008 15:17:08 Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:13:55PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > CSUM2 sounds so ugly though.  Features seem to get added and never
> > removed....  how about if this had a documented short lifetime (if it
> > really must go in)?
>
> All we need is a simple toggle to disable checksum offload.  Every
> NIC that offers receive checksum offload allows it to be disabled.
> virtio shouldn't be any different.
>
> Resetting the NIC seems a bit over the top.

Not really.  We could extend the protocol, but that's currently how feature 
negotiation works: you can't do it while the device is live.  That seemed 
simplest.  I learnt from Xen :)

(Of course, we don't need to *disable* it, we need to *enable* it).

Cheers,
Rusty.
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