Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Peter Memishian writes: > > > > > > Clearview helps legacy drivers participate more equally, but not > fully > > > > equally, in the Nevada networking stack. Some things you just cannot > do > > > > > > Will clearview allow GLDv2 drivers to do LSO? The lack of LSO seems > > > to be one especially annoying restricion on GLDv2 for which I can see > > > no technical justification. > > > > AFAIK, there's no support in the GLDv2 framework for LSO, which precludes > > softmac from being able to advertise that LSO is supported when providing > > its capabilities to the GLDv3 framework. So, no, I don't think so. But > > I'm not familiar with the LSO implementation so maybe this can be made to > > work with minimal effort. > > AFAICT, its about 10 lines of code to add to gld_cap_ack() and one > #define GLD_CAP_LSO to add to gld.h to allow a gldv2 driver to > advertise LSO.. >
If that's the case, then I suggest you file an RFE, request-sponsor, and submit the code. You don't have to wait for someone at Sun to figure this out. -- Garrett > Drew > > _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
