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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
