Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mvneta: software TSO implementation

From: Ezequiel Garcia <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:08:27 -0300

On Apr 11, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 06:02:30PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 20:51 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> > > This is not really driver specific code.
> > > 
> > > Please create an appropriate abstraction, and put this code in a
> > > common place so that any driver can do this.
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > 
> > Note a prior implementation existed in
> > 
> > drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c
> > 
> > Note sure how it can be properly factorized, but worth trying .
> 
> I also tried to find how to do this for mv643xx_eth a few years ago
> 
[..]

Can you share *any* code about this attempt on mv643xx_eth? It would be
helpful to see other TSO cases, to have more examples in order to come
up with a proper abstraction.

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Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com