[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [0/5] [NET]: Add TSO support
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:20:21PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote: > > If you can recalculate it, why is the field required at all (both in > the skbuff and in the netif_tx_extra)? You previously said it was > needed because it can't be recalculated (until you get to the > segmentation code, which may be very late in packet processing). It can't be recalculated in general (i.e., in netback). However, within each protocol module it can be recalculated. > We could calculate gso_segs for TCPv4 in netback, which is all we care > about right now. I'd rather not add protocol-specific knowledge to netback. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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