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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:53:06 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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To: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, divy@chelsio.com,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] cxgb3 - Add SW LRO support
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Steve Wise wrote:
> 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

That's argument to further avoiding compounding the problem, by 
reinventing the wheel for each driver.

	Jeff


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