From: "Leonid Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 02:25:07 -0400
> On a more serious note, I'm all in for stateless offloads but I think > that dropping stack support for adapters that don't implement TSO, etc > (either in hardware or in the driver) is a pretty long shot - someone > will have to update all the legacy drivers out there. We're not dropping support, the idea is to have a software shim that does the offload in software if the hardware isn't doing it. This will actually decrease TCP stack processing at the cost of some minimal work in the software shim. And, as a result, we can remove all of the "if (device supports TSO)" checks all over the place in the TCP stack, we can just assume the facility is available all the time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
