On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 01:28:15AM -0800, Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote: ... > The TCP layer will generate TSO packets based on the kernel socket > features associated with the flow. So if you have two devices, one > supporting TSO, the other not, then the flows associated with the > non-TSO device will not have their packets built for TSO. This has no > bearing on the device supporting TSO, which its feature flags will > propogate into the kernel socket for that flow, and cause any TCP flows > to that device to be TSO packets. So in a nutshell, disabling TSO is on > a per-device level, not a global switch.
Fine, but I was rather wondering if there could be something more in the idea of this patch that can't be done with ethtool. And I don't think qdisc code currently treats or should treat TCP special. Jarek P. -- 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
