From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
To: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us•ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•apana.org.au>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>,
netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] packet: Add GSO/checksum offload support to af_packet sockets
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:22:48 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001271222.48195.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264537819.24933.122.camel@w-sridhar.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:00:19 am Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> This patch adds GSO/checksum offload to af_packet sockets using
> virtio_net_hdr. Based on Rusty's patch to add this support to tun.
> It allows GSO/checksum offload to be enabled when using raw socket
> backend with virtio_net.
> Adds PACKET_VNET_HDR socket option to prepend virtio_net_hdr in the
> receive path and process/skip virtio_net_hdr in the send path. This
> option is only allowed with SOCK_RAW sockets attached to ethernet
> type devices.
This is really MST's baby, so I'm going to defer to his wisdom on this...
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-27 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-26 20:30 [PATCH net-next-2.6] packet: Add GSO/checksum offload support to af_packet sockets Sridhar Samudrala
2010-01-27 1:52 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2010-01-27 11:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-27 17:42 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-01-27 18:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-29 8:53 ` Herbert Xu
2010-01-29 21:25 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-01-29 21:36 ` Herbert Xu
2010-01-29 22:30 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-01-29 23:22 ` Herbert Xu
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