To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: mst@mellanox.co.il, shemminger@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org, rolandd@cisco.com
Subject: Re: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:49:09 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20061010.204528.90823856.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:45:28 -0700 (PDT)")
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    David> non-sendfile() paths will generate big packets just fine,
    David> as long as the application is providing that much data.

OK, cool.  Will the big packets be non-linear skbs?

Because then it would make sense for a device with a huge MTU to want
to accept them without linearizing them, even if it had to copy them
to checksum the data.  Otherwise with fragmented memory it would be
impossible to handle such big packets at all.

 - R.
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