Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] cxgb3 - Add SW LRO support
From: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: divy@chelsio.com, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:17:15 -0600
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On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 05:13 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:44:23PM -0800, divy@chelsio.com wrote:
> > From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
> > 
> > Add all-in-sw lro support.
> 
> Doing this in a LLDD doesn't sound like a good idea.  Have you
> tried doing this in the core networking code instead?

It looks like both Netxen and Neterion drivers already have this.  So I
think for now the LLDD implements LRO.  The stack supports it by virtue
of allowing fragmented skbs that are bigger than the MTU.

Other drivers implementing LRO:

drivers/net/s2io.c
drivers/net/netxen/

Steve.

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